That urgency has led to a groundswell of support for a form of deeply affordable housing that fell out of favor years, if not decades, ago. Single-room occupancy housing peaked in the early part ...

given the measly affordable housing projection of COYHO. Once COYHO obliterates current zoning and land use protections, luxury apartment buildings and single-room occupancy (SROs) models will ...

In the 1950s, single-room occupancy hotels (SROs) comprised 10 percent of New York’s housing stock. But in the postwar years, American norms began to shift and policymakers turned on single-room ...

Centre Avenue Housing was formerly the Hill District YMCA. It has 74 units of single room occupancy affordable housing. On a recent weekday afternoon, Matthew Walker was watching TV with some of ...

Mayor Todd Gloria’s move to encourage construction of single-room-occupancy residences has a “back to the future” feel to it. The proposed incentives for this form of low-cost housing are ...

subdivided bedrooms with shared bath and kitchen tells us not that we need to ban such “single room occupancy” housing but that they should be a safe, legal and not rare part of our housing ...

One takeaway is that homelessness, above all, reflects a shortage of cheap housing ... single-family houses to rooming houses. Rooming houses, boardinghouses or single room occupancy (S.R.O ...

Known as single room occupancy units, or SROs, they started to disappear in the postwar years amid urban renewal efforts and a focus on suburban single-family housing. Now the concept is ...

Lenny, Linda and Chestnut Housing, through their continued support of single-room occupancy properties, show us one serious solution to the national crisis of homelessness, which requires building ...

It's believed Tates is among hundreds in the city who rely on single room occupancy hotels as a place to live, according to Equal Housing Initiative, a non-profit organization which has plans to ...

Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust ... energy into saving the old single-room occupancy hotels in Skid Row ...

It’s actually located in a single-room occupancy hotel ... But as homelessness and housing costs hit record levels, Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the controversial properties ...