rooming house
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This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
She lived in a rooming house where people helped one another get by, lending money as they got paid on different days, making sure she could feed her daughter, she said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2022
After moving out of the rooming house, he rented an apartment nearby, where he again had trouble with his neighbors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
