Chaney finds lodgings in a rundown rooming house. Benjamin goes to Berkeley and moves into a rooming house near Elaine's dormitory. Apartment buildings were crowded and large homes were converted into rooming houses. He rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge. It had been converted into rooming houses and was decrepit. There were two laundries along with rooming houses and restaurants. Some entrepreneurs even converted empty warehouses into inexpensive rooming houses. Old run-down hotels were converted into rooming houses. Eddie moves into a rooming house and starts hustling for small stakes. She last saw him standing and waiting at a bus stop outside the rooming house. Charles Oakley lives alone in a rooming house. Beck began life in a rooming house near downtown Los Angeles. Many remaining mansions had been converted to rooming houses over the years. He arrived at his rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Ave. Holliday lived in a rooming house in front of Fly's photography studio.