Brother, Can You Spare a Room?

(NYTBR) - As mortgages and rent become harder to pay, readers may be taking Balzac and Isherwood down from the shelf, eyeing the sleeper-sofa in the TV nook appraisingly, and wondering: Would it be un-­American to take in boarders? Or is boarding the sort of thing that happens only in European novels?
In fact, once upon a time, the boardinghouse thrived in America ... Continued

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