Madisonville Boarding House 703 Main Street Madisonville, LA photo by Kristijrn is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Essential worker housing of an earlier era, now a fine old historic home in Madisonville, LA
Rooming Houses have inherited the prejudices of another era. Low rent, low class, catering to single, rootless, “ne’re-do-wells”, a festering sore on the backside of any upright community.
But do rooming houses actually deserve the enmity that is slowly driving them to extinction? Or do they represent a proven solution to providing affordable housing to the needy, worthy of encouragement rather than disdain.
Read this in-depth study and watch the video from Global News: ‘No place to go’: An inside look at the affordable housing crunch in Halifax
