Jeff A. Chamer

See my story about the owner of a home in Dilworth that exploded on May 2, and who was arrested in Chicago Friday! ⬇️

Side note: it is so surreal and exciting to see a story I wrote shared by Phil Lewis 🤯

A Kannapolis spokeswoman confirmed to The @charlotteobserver.bsky.social that Edgar Maddison Welch, who died Monday after two officers shot him this weekend, was the “Pizzagate” gunman in 2016.

He was shot when he refused to drop a gun pointed at an officer during a traffic stop.

My story below ⬇️

Ahead of tonight's meeting I want to quickly say that this will be my last. After four happy years at the Telegram I am moving onto a new role I will be sharing in due time. I am grateful to my team of editors and coworkers at the T&G and to all who followed my threads.

Almost every tenant living at the Lamplighter Inn has been moved out of the west Charlotte hotel this week.

They’ve been moved to other hotels around the city - reportedly all in better conditions - and will get help finding permanent housing.

Read more:
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@jeff-a-chamer.bsky.social has been reporting on this troubled hotel — sold to some especially vulnerable people as affordable, transitional housing — for a while now. Here's the latest:
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Alicia Harvey and her daughters moved to Charlotte after a hurricane destroyed their Florida home in 2018, leaving them homeless.

It was meant to be a fresh start.

Instead, they lived in shelters and 5-7 hotels, including the Lamplighter Inn.

Read more: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

A photo by Diamond Vences of Alicia Andrews in her Charlotte hotel room.

Florida hurricane left a woman, her daughters homeless. Now she lives at Charlotte hotel | Observer story by @jeff-a-chamer.bsky.social

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Text from handwritten note: My Husbands ashes. I made me feel alone scared, empty. now I wonder where he is and if He's all still in His urn and if Hes ok And I Hope He's not in the Dump

ProPublica spoke with 135 people who had experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal: propub.li/4fW8YIT

Updated with additional details. Be sure to give it a read!

And check out my pinned post to get more background on the events that led up to today’s news.

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Had @jeff-a-chamer.bsky.social not investigated and continued to report on people living in awful conditions in a Charlotte hotel, nothing would have changed. Now, the city is helping www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

Initial coverage here www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

But I’m adding to the story now, so check back for updates!

Housing Collaborative and Legal Aid Of NC will continue providing legal services and housing search assistance to residents who request help. They’ve been in contact with people at the hotel since the city responded to the situation earlier this month.

BREAKING: People at the Lamplighter Inn have been told the west Charlotte hotel will close on Dec. 11 and utilities shut off. They’ll need to exit the property by then.

Long term tenants and those without a place to go will be moved to other hotels.

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And I can't get a Pepsi through security! What was this guy thinking 🙋

California gangster who hid $700K in drugs in luggage at Charlotte’s airport sentenced.

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We'll miss you, John Boy and Billy. Longtime show pulled from Charlotte radio airwaves. Read my story:

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Reporter Jeff Chamer has now published four stories on the conditions at a rundown Charlotte, N.C., hotel where people on the cusp of homelessness are living, and the owner isn't talking. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

And finally, read where this all began. With a program that said it would help the tenants escape homelessness, but then left them stranded when it didn’t work out.

My July investigation:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

Tenants have also been dealing with utilities like water and electricity being turned off without warning, requiring the city and nonprofits to step in and restore them.

Tenants have not been able to take a hot shower for almost two weeks. More here:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

To learn more about the confusion surrounding the 30-day vacate notice (that doesn’t exist) and confusion about who owns the hotel, check this story out:

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

Now that I’m here, I’d recommend reading my recent stories about a west Charlotte hotel where tenants on the cusp of homelessness have lived in poor conditions for most of this year.

Most recent: confusion about a vacate notice. Turns out there wasn’t one. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...