Sheridan, who was living in a temporary two-bedroom residence with about 20 family members after mould was discovered in their already overcrowded home, became overwhelmed by her surroundings, Jackie said.
Thanks to the miracle of temporary walls, a second bedroom was carved out of the living room, and the new partitions included French doors off the reconfigured hallway.
The family decided to take a temporary rental, a three-bedroom house in Mamaroneck, in Westchester, and even that was traumatic.
As for Mr. Miloszewicz and Ms. Calahan — along with their newborn son, Malcolm — they are not far from their old place in a temporary rental: a two-bedroom garden apartment with a backyard.
Occupancy rates for the one- and two-bedroom temporary-stay units held at 99 percent.
And today's communal living is more often in a two- or three-bedroom apartment (a temporary wall frequently dividing a living room to make an additional bedroom) with roommates of both sexes.
The family installed a temporary wall to split the bedroom for the two younger children.
The meeting took place in the butlers' temporary office, an eighth-floor bedroom from which the bed, though not its gilded headboard, had been removed.
They knew they couldn't afford a true two-bedroom, so they planned to erect a temporary wall in a large one-bedroom, priced no higher than $2,700 a month.
Then there are the scores of young adults taking up temporary residence in their childhood bedrooms.
Someone in New York found him a temporary home in the one-bedroom apartment of a sympathetic Pakistani named Arshad, where he has slept since.
