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Single-room occupancy (SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [1]
Rooming houses are often used as housing for low-income people, as rooming houses (along with single room occupancy units in hotels) are the least expensive housing for single adults. [1] Rooming houses are usually owned and operated by private landlords. [2]
Single-occupancy vehicle, a vehicle designed to accommodate more than one person, but being used to transport only one person (the driver); Single-occupant vehicle, a vehicle designed to accommodate only one person (the driver) - for very small cars, see Microcar, Bubblecar, and Cyclecar
Cage hotels, a form of single-room occupancy, were common in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century; an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people lived in them during the winter. These were lofts or other large, open buildings that were subdivided into tiny cubicles using boards or sheets of corrugated iron.
Boarding house – residence that provides meals and a room to live in, with some communal areas; Rooming house – residence that provides a room to live in, but not meals; Single room occupancy – residence that rents rooms to individuals; Youth intervention
The American and Canadian equivalents to a bedsit are rooming houses and single room occupancy (SRO); however, in Canada those differ from bedsits in that rooming houses and SRO hotels generally do not provide tenants with private kitchen or bathing facilities; instead, those facilities are shared.
Occupancy can also refer to the number of units in use, such as hotel rooms, apartment flats, or offices. When a motel is at full occupancy, it is common practice to turn on a NO VACANCY neon sign. Completely vacant buildings can also attract crime. A 2017 study found that demolishing vacant buildings "reduce crime by about 8 percent on the ...
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