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Boarding & Lodging House Keeping

•Entrepreneurial pursuit created for non-wage income and consumer’s need for temporary, affordable shelter.

•Great demand during the Great Depression and the Great Migration

•The number of Black families that needed to take in boarders and lodgers was considerable. According to one estimate, “at least one-third” of Black families in the urban North had lodgers or boarders during the Great Migration (Frazier, 1939/1966:342)