rooming house

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.

She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets.

Soon the rooming houses, small apartment buildings and ramshackle Victorian homes there gave way.

“Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town,” the noir master Raymond Chandler wrote, long before the neighborhood’s old rooming houses were demolished.

Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.