It is not a welfare hotel, in name or fact.

And by July 1990 only 157 families were left in welfare hotels.

About 9,000 children live in the city's 60 welfare hotels.

At one point, she worked with children in welfare hotels.

For James, the problems started before he first walked into a welfare hotel.

Each family has a different story of life since the welfare hotels.

"At the rate we're going, I don't think we will be out of welfare hotels by the fall."

She said she'd been living in one of the welfare hotels.

It costs $69,000 a year to keep a family of three living in a welfare hotel.

He does it for $30,000 a family per year ($9,000 less than a welfare hotel).