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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Low-income tenants living at the Express Inn in Colorado Springs have to find a new home. The motel is closing, and that means the homeless non-profit that's renting out rooms at $155 a week have until May 15 to leave.  A majority of the renters have found new homes with CC Boarding Home but the two-week notice isn't sitting well with everyone.

"It's just too stressful to think," Phillip Chavez, who lives at Express Inn, said. "I got until the 15th, if I can hold it out without the power, 'til then I'm gonna have to figure it out."

Chavez has been at the Express Inn since last November after losing his job. Like many of the down and out people living in Colorado Springs, the motel was an opportunity to have a home and access to a local food pantry and car rides, provided by a local church.

But officials with the Colorado Springs Code Enforcement said the building wasn't meeting code. It had a recurring bed bug problem, deteriorated stairs and a room flooded with sewage.

However, unlike the general homeless population, the Colorado Springs Police Department doesn't believe these residents will hit the streets or create tent cities.

"Our guess is about 150 homeless are still out there. Those our are hardcore homeless substance abusers, mental health issues," Officer Brett Iverson with the Colorado Springs Police Department said.

Security is becoming an issue at the Express Inn with so much empty space there's potential for vandalism so a fence will be installed in the next few days.