They’re also increasingly hard to find. Woonsocket, which had 19 licensed rooming houses in 1964, is down to just four today. Pawtucket had 55 rooming houses in 1960, but there were just 15 by ...

Nationwide, the number of rooming house residents shrank from 634,000 in 1960 to 330,000 a decade later. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t track that figure at all.

Nationwide, the number of rooming house residents shrank from 634,000 in 1960 to 330,000 a decade later. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t track that figure at all.