The three-story buildings around the plaza housed laborers from Harbor Three.

When it was rebuilt, the city chose it for dozens of cheap hotels to house laborers doing construction at the harbor and nearby American navy base.

In the makeshift drug treatment centers that have popped up across the state, addicts pack into the sorts of tiny cells that might house migrant laborers or prisoners, which many of them have been.

Last year, Farmingville and Brookhaven officials evicted the tenants of several illegally overcrowded single-family homes that had housed immigrant laborers.

The inn's owner, Izutullah Baig, told me that he built his lodge in 1974 to house Chinese laborers working on the highway.

Constructed in 1941 under the auspices of the National Housing Administration, Pueblo Del Rio was originally designed to house low-income laborers at the factories south of downtown Los Angeles.

One cluster of cottages near 168th Street and Broadway housed laborers for a nearby sugar refinery, he said.

Originally designed to house sugar workers, Cité Simone later housed manual laborers for a local Export Processing Zone (EPZ).

While noting that two sites she visited had not recently housed forced laborers, Ms. Rehn neglected to mention the considerable evidence that Bosnian Serb authorities are detaining forced laborers elsewhere.