If a landlord creates a makeshift apartment, and he runs wires and plumbing to the basement, it could be unsafe.

Once a single-family residence, it came to house four makeshift rental apartments, with a dry-cleaning store below.

For a few short years after the war the barracks buildings of Camp Grant were converted into makeshift apartments.

In reply, city officials cite the dangers of living in the makeshift, crowded apartments.

Here, Barney has picked up a girl and the truck shown to be behind the MacLaren's bar in an alley, being used as Barney's makeshift apartment.

The new superintendent hired people off the street to do his job, often reimbursing them by letting them live rent-free in squalid makeshift apartments in the boiler rooms.

He lives by himself in a makeshift apartment behind a waterfall but lives in Gummi Glen when the weather is too harsh.

But I have a hunch that Hector inspected the warehouse, found the squatters in their makeshift apartments, talked to them, and learned that they were in fact paying rent to Tillman Gantry.

Community leaders say that the city has 8,000 to 10,000 homeless families and countless numbers of people doubled up, living in makeshift apartments in basements.

Many of those cheaper houses on the east side have been converted, often illegally, into makeshift apartments for the men who get picked up in trucks for construction and landscaping jobs each morning.