It isn't a single-room-occupancy hotel, a halfway house, a dorm or a retirement home. From Wordnik.com. [A Real Estate Idea Whose Time Has Come, Gone and Come Again] Reference
According to newspaper reports, on March 24, 1995, a 20-year-old woman living in an Upper West Side single-room-occupancy hotel answered a hall phone. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Simeon] Reference
In the US, unless you have the utilities turned off or unless you live in a single-room-occupancy hotel or student dorm, generally you have some access to a stove and refrigerator. From Wordnik.com. [Healthy Living] Reference
In 1997, Billy Coulter died of AIDS in a very bad hotel inFresno, what they used to call an SRO, single-room-occupancy, the kind of place where retired priests and alcoholics go to die. From Wordnik.com. [They say the neon lights are bright ...] Reference
The main culprits are not individual owners who occasionally have paying house guests but landlords who run hotels out of illegally converted single-room-occupancy buildings, says Ms. Hale-Stern. From Wordnik.com. [Budget Rentals Under Fire] Reference
The Tenderloin, wedged between Union Square and the Civic Center, for years has had a seedy reputation for its abundance of single-room-occupancy hotels, addiction-outreach programs and liquor stores and strip clubs. From Wordnik.com. [Tenderloin Crackdown Sparks Backlash] Reference
As Washington and Trenton withdrew funding from mental hospitals, many mansions were cut up into apartments, and old hotels were converted by their owners into semi-permanent single-room-occupancy to house a cross section of poor, frequently troubled individuals. From Wordnik.com. [On the Boardwalk] Reference
Now a single-room-occupancy hotel, the four-story Sandford Hotel on 5th Avenue was built in. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
Mercy for two weeks, says Edelstein, who found him a single-room-occupancy apartment in Logan. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The government has also pitched in, renovating some of the area's more rundown single-room-occupancy hotels, Clausius says. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"I had to get tired enough of life in the streets to get it together on my own" and earn a spot in a single-room-occupancy hotel, he told me. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
Boulevard, show eight single-room-occupancy units, each one about 150 square feet, with bathrooms but not kitchens, on the second and third floors. From Wordnik.com. [Queens Crap] Reference
The demonstrators said they owned or worked at hostels or single-room-occupancy establishments that they feared would be harmed if the proposal became law. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In the immediate vicinity are scuzzy single-room-occupancy housing, the futuristic-looking San Francisco Federal Building and a sleek plaza lined with cafes. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Travel] Reference
In all, more than 2,400 meals were served, 400 at the park and 2,000 delivered door-to-door to those living in the Tenderloin's single-room-occupancy hotels. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
In recent years the city has subsidized mortgages for more than 2,000 moderate-income home buyers and built or renovated 2,900 single-room-occupancy units and about 4,500 units of multifamily housing. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
An ongoing Pivot study identifies 1,448 rooms in residential hotels -- often dubbed single-room-occupancy or SRO hotels -- that have been closed since the 2010 Winter Games were awarded in July of 2003. From Wordnik.com. [Tyee - Home] Reference
And yet plans to open a similar shelter for 30 women, along with 26 units of single-room-occupancy housing, in an abandoned factory at 2100 W. North Ave. has ignited opposition from residents in W.cker Park. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
It dates to the 1950s, she said, when the city balked at the number of sketchy single-room-occupancy buildings and their often equally sketchy inhabitants, and wanted boarding house brownstones to be converted back to family homes. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
64-year-old Vincent was flat broke, couch surfing at friends 'homes and suffering a deep depression when he moved into the single-room-occupancy hotel through Newsom's controversial Care Not Cash program three years ago. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Others are in single-room-occupancy hotels. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
LOOK Updated, rock-star S.R.O., as in single-room-occupancy hotel. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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