WOONSOCKET — Long before Russell Archambault was born, his mother needed to escape her first marriage. Desperate to leave her drunken husband, she wound up in a rooming house on Social Street. It was ...
A hot real estate market in Boston and surrounding cities is fueling rent hikes and evictions in what has long been one of the cheapest housing options in poor neighborhoods — rooming houses. Housing ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Olive and Wooster, complete with a pool, gym and maybe an illegal rooming house. Credit: Thomas ...
In February, Tammy Olomina was sleeping in her car after a divorce left her homeless in Houston. The 47-year-old saw an ad for a housing marketplace called PadSplit, which lets people rent rooms in ...
To the city, the rooming houses in the 400 block of South Rosalind Avenue are a threat to the public health, safety and welfare. To the owners, who face mounting fines from the city’s Code Enforcement ...
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - A rooming house crisis for close to 200 people in Savannah is still unfolding after several illegal rooming houses were closed down last week. Investigators say Ike Lewis was ...
Two weeks ago, the number of suspected illegal rooming houses in Savannah had held steady since the summer, and city leaders wanted that to change. After an inquiry by the Savannah Morning News into ...
Some people very familiar with New Brunswick's housing shortage say rooming houses could be part of the solution, but the existing supply of this once popular low-cost housing option continues to ...
This \rooming house operated by J.D. Martin Properties at 4303 Gaston Ave. in Dallas is one of the few remaining in the city.(Rose Baca / Staff Photographer) Rooming and boarding houses — typically at ...