Untapped Cities

NYC’s SRO Housing Problem and the Micro-Apartment Initiative

Next City’s Forefront Magazine took a deep dive into the problems of SRO (Single Room Occupancy) units in New York City, highlighting the story of an immigrant from Guinea living in a unit in Hunts ...
Mission Local

311 for SROs Gets a Push

Amos Howard moved into the Mission Hotel, one of the 50 single room occupancy hotels in the Mission District, three months ago to find out he would be sharing a room with bedbugs. He’s not alone — ...
Los Angeles Times

Disappearance of SRO hotels playing even larger role in San Diego’s homelessness problem

Reporting from San Diego — The disappearance of single-room-occupancy hotels here, considered a key factor in the city’s worsening homeless problem, has been more severe than city officials thought. A ...
Oregonian

Portland banking on low-rent SRO hotels to ease housing problems

Jennifer Carder has lived in the Barbara Maher Apartments building in North Portland for only four months but she already feels more at home than she has in years. Every wall of her tiny room is ...