Historical Housing Practices

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noun a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house, especially one used by transients or people living on very low incomes

  • The city council decided to shut down the flophouse due to multiple health code violations.
  • I heard that old abandoned building is now being used as a flophouse for homeless people.
  • I can't believe he's living in that flophouse, it's such a dump.
  • His mind felt like a flophouse, cluttered with random thoughts and memories.