flophouse

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The setting of McPherson’s play is a flophouse in Depression-era Duluth, Minn., the port city where Dylan was born in 1941.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

For almost every character, the film is one hardship after another: late buses, empty wallets, a basement flophouse, capricious bullies.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Sure, your mom might think your bedroom looks like a flophouse, but how many people are in your bedroom regularly?

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2020

On colder nights he would head to a flophouse, colored a bluish- purple next to another church.

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2020

After a week, I have compiled the following survey: Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich