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 just part of ...

Understanding Single-Room Occupancy Laws In their Housing Law column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman explain the laws of single-room occupancy buildings standing in the shoes of the purchaser or ...

Samaha is a housing program manager for PATH — People Assisting The Homeless. She lives in Hillcrest. In 1985, San Diego resident Jill Van Cleve spoke to the city’s planning commission regarding a ...

There is a push to revive single-room occupancy housing, where kitchens and bathrooms are shared among apartments as small as 100 square feet each. By Mihir Zaveri Single-room apartments once ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose. The 180-square-foot (17-square-meter) room is filled with an ...

One solution for downtown Minneapolis’ vacant offices: Affordable ‘co-living’ housing Researchers at Pew Charitable Trusts teamed with planning firm Gensler to explore how converting empty office ...

Let’s talk single-room occupancy. The Department of Buildings last month dished out $180,000 in penalties at 915 55th Street in Brooklyn, where inspectors found the building had been converted from a ...

In its Thursday meeting, the Gainesville City Commission passed an ordinance covering restrictions on single room occupancy (SRO) residences through a second reading. SROs are a form of housing where ...