[toothrot]

The article briefly mentions the definition, but not in detail. They're part of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) programs for affordable housing in big cities. SROs have fallen out of favor with no good alternative, but they've been a lifeline for friends of mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

[blamazon]

A little known fact is that hotels constructed in New York City "before July 1, 1969 which cost less than $88 per week or $350 per month on May 31, 1968" are subject to a law that states that guests are entitled to become a permanent tenant by requesting a lease of six months or more, and hotels are generally barred from preventing such people from doing such that.

There's someone who has been trying to claim ownership through this mechanism of the New Yorker hotel across from Penn Station, with surprising amounts of success:

https://viewfromthewing.com/new-york-city-transfers-hotel-de...

[Arrath]

What a wild read.

[tecleandor]

Well, and I see the owner of that hotel is the Unification Church (a.k.a. "The Moonies"). Now that's another wild read if you have some time to kill.

One son of the founder is the owner of Kahr Arms (the arms manufacturer), and cofounded with his brother the "Rod of Iron Ministries", a weird gun centered church where they do AR-15 rituals and stuff...

Both churches are involved in heavy lgtb hate, anti communism (although seems like they sent some money to North Korea in the 90s) and some other stuff...

[qingcharles]

Plus it turns out they seem to have infiltrated the entire Japanese government...