Article: D.C. Rooming Houses Feel Agency Crackdown; Nearly 100 Inspected, Four Shut Down

Article: Rooming Houses Put Tenants in Tight Spot, but It's ...
The Washington Post;  June 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... making a slow but steady comeback: rooming houses. Such homes once welcomed thousands ... refrigerators and microwave ovens. Smaller rooming houses accommodate a dozen to 20 people ... Johnson and Cash, the low rents make rooming houses the only alternative to staying in ...

Article: Is there room for rooming houses?; As plans for ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... That's a description of Waukesha's rooming houses that adds up to the perfect place to ... future of Waukesha's downtown, the rooming houses are an increasing worry, citing them ... make the city unsafe for families. Rooming houses have been at the forefront of a political ...

Article: Rooming houses: Fewer people are on board; Numbers ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Rooming houses and boarding houses are like mass ... Wisconsin at Madison, who said that rooming houses today go virtually unnoticed because ... boarding houses and their cousins, rooming houses, which didn't include meals, in ...

Article: Rooming houses not causing social ills, says clerk; ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  February 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... little to do with the concentration of rooming houses scattered throughout downtown, some ... subcommittee last night that the city's 40 rooming houses - 20 of which are in or near downtown ... Center a bad rap are living in the rooming houses." The council's public safety subcommittee ...

Article: CITY IS EYING ROOMING HOUSES
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 15, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... NJ) 03-15-1991 CITY IS EYING ROOMING HOUSES -- ONE OUT OF THREE IS UNLICENSED ... P Nearly a third of Passaic's 55 rooming houses are operating without state licenses ... Councilwoman Margie Semler said of the rooming houses on Thursday. Semler said she noticed ...

Article: WAUKESHA; Serving a housing need; It isn't necessary to bar ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 9, 2007 ;     692 words ... ... proposal by Ald. Randy Radish to bar any new rooming houses in the city seems unnecessary. And another ... unnecessarily harsh and aimed at getting rid of current rooming houses. Rooming houses, in which transient and long-term tenants ...

Article: Owner told to shut illegal rooming houses
Winnipeg Free Press;  January 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the end of the line for two illegal rooming houses on Bannerman Avenue which had been ... neighbouring residents who allege the rooming houses have caused many problems in the area ... Peltz, lawyer for the owner of the rooming houses, Boris Peter Wessner, told members ...