tenement

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

A dwelling; abode; habitation.

Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.