Why Does Half Of Salem Live in Hotels?

It's sad they don't use the home sets anymore. Chad and Abigail are staying in Jennifer's house, so we are seeing that, but I don't know what happened to the downstairs part of it.

This is why, I've long wondered - assuming it were feasible for their production expenses and whatnot - if they might benefit from taking a page out of Scrubs' production playbook. Find an abandoned building, per example, an abandoned hospital. Renovate sections for specific purposes; keep a few areas for the hospital - reception, maybe an OR, nurses station and recovery ward. The rest of the build you have your offices, dressing rooms, but also carve out a space that can be used as proper offices, a police precinct (or at least a floor of the precinct). Use a couple of patient rooms to create apartments and living room sets. It's hard to say how much room they'd really have, but if you've got a three story hospital, and only a small corner needs to actually look like a hospital, that's space that can be anything else.
Use the parking lot space immediately outside and dress the façade of the building to look like different storefronts; create a garden space on the roof for the park.

Maybe the cost would be too high, but if a half-hour comedy that seemed to be on the verge of cancellation the first few seasons (I think, if memory serves) could afford to do that; ostensibly it's on par with the soundstage costs. Maybe....