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welfare hotel

noun

  1. a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.


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Origin of welfare hotel1

First recorded in 1970–75
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The arc of West Indian Archie, where at the end you are broken and vulnerable and sitting in the room of a welfare hotel, unable to move because of a stroke, was so powerful and riveting.

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“The lobby was so dingy it looked like a welfare hotel,” Trump wrote in his book The Art of the Deal.

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“The lobby was so dingy it looked like a welfare hotel,” he wrote in “The Art of the Deal,” but then his eye caught a hopeful sign.

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That page, among other things, said Ms. Rose “welcomes” a welfare hotel for drug addicts and criminals.

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In it, he passes along a post from a sham Facebook page set up in the name of her opponent, City Councilwoman Deborah Rose, inviting people to support her “partnership” with a real estate developer to turn a property into an “SRO Welfare Hotel full of Criminals.”

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