[circuit]

You missed the last half of that sentence. It's a room, not a house, that you will be likely be sharing with someone else.

> room in a shared apartment or house.

[arrakeenrevived]

The target audience of volunteers for this type of position are people that are probably used to happily sleeping in tents and eating camp food for days/weeks at a time. I don't think they'd mind.

[abluecloud]

guess it's a race to the bottom then

[Apocryphon]

It’s for the self-selecting who see it as an experience, not a race.

[stephenr]

Why would you expect it to be an entire house for one person? It's a volunteer position in a national park, not Jimmy Carters newest deal: homes for extremely introverted humans.

[hyperhopper]

As somebody that's enjoyed many months living exclusively in hostels:

You're out of your mind. Homes should be a standard. That's like, one of the basic human wants/needs as an organism. And having the privacy of your own space is essential to the human psyche.

[lazyasciiart]

What?

[hyperhopper]

Which part are you confused about? I like to have a lock on my door.

[stephenr]

The part where you started comparing a private room in a shared house/apartment, with a hostel.