Victoria Park Tent City

[tomh009]

Cities have long been home to transient populations, often those just entering the workforce who have moved away from their home community, who require short-term accommodations. Working men and women moving to the big city to live in a rooming house with a landlady who depending on the circumstances, would also provide meals. Sometimes, companies who needed workers would supply their own boarding houses. Organizations such as the YMCA did the same thing (ever wonder why the song goes, "It's fun to stay at the YMCA"?)

I wonder whether many people still would like to live in a rooming house.  Company-provided rooming houses do still exist, just not in North America (apart from some remote locations where no other housing is available).