Hotel in affluent Brisbane suburb ceases offering emergency accommodation after resident’s letter campaign

Letter calls for restoration of ‘safe and quiet neighbourhood’ after Hamilton hotel hosts about seven families over new year

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A hotel manager says he will no longer accept people seeking emergency accommodation after a resident of an affluent Brisbane suburb urged the community to restore the “safe and quiet neighbourhood” in a letterboxing campaign.

The manager of the hotel in Hamilton, where the median house price is $1.9m, said about seven families, including at least 13 children, stayed there before the new year period.

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