Taking It on the Lam by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

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These kinds of facilities are typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes and other bums who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. No phone, no cooking, no visitors were the best attractions. Single room occupancy (SRO) units were rented out as a permanent residence and/or primary residence to individuals, within a multi-tenant building where tenants shared a kitchen and toilet in the hall. If a resident didn’t quickly shit or get off the pot they were courting trouble. SRO units ranged from 80 to 140

sq. ft. In some instances, luxury units may have a small sink, but if you had known what prior tenants had done to it, you wouldn’t want to use it. Flophouses have at least two core concepts; they are possible to rent for cash nightly and they are also cheap enough that poor people can rent them on a

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