When this building was originally built in 1910 was used to house working folks. Not the poor.
The building was designed for middle class worker housing when demand for such housing was increasing around the beginning of the 20th century. It was billed as an “apartment hotel“,… The individual units did not have their own separate kitchens; instead, residents ate from a common restaurant in the building.
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It was beautifully renovated in the 1990s and is now home to 70 previously homeless people. There are onsite services, classes and workshops.
Single occupancy rooming houses were a perfectly acceptable form of housing for many years. But not any more. Norms and standards are bound to change. It’s just that when people cry fowl on affordability, they also need to acknowledge that today’s standards are apart of the the higher expense.
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