welfare hotel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of welfare hotel
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Those aspirations were crushed in 1987, when he fell down an elevator shaft in a Midtown welfare hotel.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2011
Marketing Manager Suzanne Feinberg, 33, encounters whole families of beggars at her Manhattan subway stop, which is on the same block as a welfare hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally, they turn to a city shelter, from which they are sent to a seedy welfare hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New York City's Battery Park was Amy Sherwood, 6, who until last month had been living with her mother and two sisters in a Manhattan welfare hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Day after Easter, they sent me to a welfare hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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