Lepers at the City Gate: Single Room Occupancy and the Housing Crisis ![](/wp-content/themes/Dissent-Rumors-Mobile/images/lock.gif)
It’s a sultry July morning; I am sitting on a low wall outside a three-story brownstone on West 120th Street, a stone’s throw away from Mount Morris Park, in Harlem. Four workmen, covered in dust and dirt, are coming and …