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residential hotels  

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  • Residential hotels, or single-room occupancy hotels (hereafter SROs), are a vital but unappreciated housing resource. Poor-quality SROs are commonly described as “flophouses” whose rooms resemble “cages” or “cribs.” For over a century, SROs have housed low-income and working-class single adults living in major urban centers. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Residential Hotels]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/residential_hotels

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