Apartment hotel
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An apartment hotel or aparthotel (also residential hotel, or extended-stay hotel) is a
an apartment, but with no fixed contracts and occupants can "check out" whenever they wish, subject to the applicable minimum length of stay imposed by the company.An apartment hotel complex usually offers a complete fully fitted apartment. These complexes are usually custom built, and similar to a hotel complex containing a varied number of apartments. The length of stay in these apartment hotels is varied with anywhere from a few days to months or even years. The people who stay in apartment hotels use them as long-term accommodation; therefore, the hotels are often fitted with most things the average home would require.
Origins
Apartment hotels were first created in holiday destinations as accommodation for families that needed to "live" in an apartment rather than "stay" as they would in a hotel. The apartments would provide a "holiday home" but generally be serviced. Later, these apartments evolved to be complete homes, allowing occupants to do everything they would at home, such as cleaning, washing, and cooking.
Extended stay hotels
Extended stay hotels, also called
The
The Ascott Limited is a serviced apartment group that has over 70,000 properties over 190 cities in more than 30 countries.[4]
Single room occupancy
Single room occupancy hotels (more commonly abbreviated to SRO), also called "residential hotels"[5] are a form of housing that is typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes. They usually rent small single rooms without amenities such as kitchens, toilets or bathrooms, which are rented out as permanent residence and/or primary residence [5] to individuals, within a multi-tenant building with shared kitchens, toilets or bathrooms. SRO units are typically 8 feet by ten feet.[6] While roommates sharing an apartment may also have a bedroom and share a bathroom and kitchen, an SRO tenant leases the SRO unit individually.[7] SRO units are the least expensive form of non-subsidized rental housing, with median rents even in New York City ranging from $450 to $705 per month.[8]
SROs may constitute a form of
The term refers to the fact that the tenant rents a single room, as opposed to a full flat (apartment). SRO units may be provided in a rooming house, apartment building, or in illegal conversions of private homes into many small SRO rooms. There is a variety of levels of quality, ranging from a "cubicle with a wire mesh ceiling", at the lowest end, to small hotel rooms or small studio apartments without bathrooms, at the higher end.[12] They may also be referred to as "SRO hotels", which acknowledges that many of the buildings are old hotels that are in a poor state of repair and maintenance.[13] The acronym SRO has also been stated to mean "single resident only".[10]
See also
- Serviced apartment
- Studio apartment
- Corporate housing
References
- ^ "Worldwide leader in hospitality – AccorHotels Group" (PDF).
- ^ https://www.redroof.com/extendedstay/hometownestudios
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- ^ "The Ascott Limited".
- ^ a b "Definition of Residential hotel/single room occupancy". www.lawinsider.com. Law Insider. Archived from the original on 22 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "HISTORY OF S.R.O. RESIDENTIAL HOTELS IN SAN FRANCISCO". www.ccsroc.net. Central City SRO Collaborative. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ^ "Considering SRO Housing in New York City and Beyond". www.huduser.gov. PD&R Edge. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
- ^ Brian J. Sullivan & Jonathan Burke, Single-Room Occupancy Housing in New York City: The Origins and Dimensions of a Crisis, 17 CUNY L. Rev. 113 (2013). Available at: 10.31641/clr170104. p. 117
- ^ Huppke, Rex W. (31 August 2011). "Single-room occupancy hotels disappearing across Chicago". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ a b Beckett, Katherine; Herbert, Steve. Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America. Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 27
- ^ Ionova, Mariana (3 June 2013). "The $80-a-Week, 60-Square-Foot Housing Solution That's Also Totally Illegal: It's Time to Bring Back the SRO". nextcity.org. Next City. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ Brian J. Sullivan & Jonathan Burke, Single-Room Occupancy Housing in New York City: The Origins and Dimensions of a Crisis, 17 CUNY L. Rev. 113 (2013). Available at: 10.31641/clr170104. p. 115
- ^ "Groth, Paul. Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. Chapter One—Conflicting Ideas about Hotel Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994".