Where did orphan or runaway coster children live and how did they get money?

Orphan or runaway coster children had especially hard lives. When they made enough money, they paid to share a bed in a low lodging house with up to five other children of both sexes. Lodging house rooms were often in terrible condition, unheated with leaky roofs and bedbugs. In the worst lodging houses, children slept in the same room with adult strangers of both sexes.