The Place sounded downright nightmarish; I've been to spaces like that and they're awful. But I'm bougie and relatively fastidious.

On the plus side, he doesn't get super graphic. There is a particularly bad bit involving a child.

I think you'll enjoy Wayward Children. The first is arguably the weakest (lots of time spent worldbuilding, with a secondary world classification system that feels gratuitous to me) but it just keeps getting better from there.