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welfare hotel
n. A hotel where people receiving welfare can stay until permanent housing is found.
Usage examples of "welfare hotel".
In his miserable roach-infested room in the welfare hotel, the Writer pored over the current issue of Publishers Wee/dy that he had stolen from the local branch of the public library.
They passed several old houses clearly broken into apartments, then a welfare hotel, the resident alcoholics watching them apathetically from the steps.