Where to Stay? The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Exacerbated the Desert’s Affordable Housing Shortage - Coachella Valley Independent

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Where to Stay? The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Exacerbated the Desert’s Affordable Housing Shortage - Coachella Valley Independent

Brandon Eugene Owens has stayed in the desert longer than he anticipated.Owens, a musician who grew up in Long Beach and lived near Pasadena, was staying in Palm Springs following a New Year’s Eve event when the devastating wildfires struck Los Angeles on Jan. 7. His mother was evacuated from her Pasadena-area nursing home, so he brought her to the desert.After a week in Palm Springs, he and his mother moved to a Motel 6 in Twentynine Palms for …