welfare hotels
Subsidized temporary lodging
Welfare hotels are low-cost residential hotels where government agencies place homeless families or individuals receiving public assistance.
The term emerged in the 1980s when cities began using cheap hotels as emergency housing, often in run-down buildings with poor conditions: The city spent millions housing families in welfare hotels.
The practice drew criticism for warehousing the poor in substandard accommodations at high cost to taxpayers.
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- down and outLacking money and hope
- lodgingTemporary place to stay
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- transientTemporary, soon departing
homeless · family shelter · transitional housing · overcrowding · displacement · housing crisis · refuge · shelters · temporary · last resort · emergency shelters · boarding houses · poverty · social services · safety net · subsidized housing · affordable housing · asylum
welfare hotelshomeownership
Legally possessing residential property
family home · private residence · long-term rental · permanent residence · ancestral home
welfare hotelsluxury apartments
Expensive, well-appointed residences
gated communities · penthouse suites · safe housing · boutique hotels
welfare hotelsaffluent neighborhoods
Prosperous residential districts