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Opinion: The old new way to provide cheap housing

Gregory Walker in front of the PadSplit home he shares with six others in a middle-class neighborhood of Houston. Rooming houses, boardinghouses or single room occupancy hotels used to be ubiquitous. President Thomas Jefferson stayed in one, Nicholas Kristof writes. (Nicholas Kristof via The New York Times)

Gregory Walker in front of the PadSplit home he shares with six others in a middle-class neighborhood of Houston. Rooming houses, boardinghouses or single room occupancy hotels used to be ubiquitous. President Thomas Jefferson stayed in one, Nicholas Kristof writes. (Nicholas Kristof via The New York Times)

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By Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times