flophouse

Example Sentences

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But intervenors have pointed out that the containment strategy did not envision people living on the streets of skid row, which once had numerous flophouses and other cheap forms of housing.

From Los Angeles Times

Many skid row residents live in cramped rooms in converted flophouses and other buildings, are un- or underemployed, and mark time outside on street corners and parks.

From Los Angeles Times

Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses.

From New York Times

This was Hollywood before flophouses became Whole Foods grocers.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, their flophouses have been renovated into yoga studios and brewpubs.

From Seattle Times