I wasn't thinking like a kid-style dorm. When I was younger, I worked at a gas station for the summer in a tourist town (Tofino, BC). Gas station attendants are

I wasn't thinking like a kid-style dorm. When I was younger, I worked at a gas station for the summer in a tourist town (Tofino, BC). Gas station attendants aren't usually given free housing, but in this case the company did provide housing because they found it impossible to staff the place otherwise. The town got stuffed so full of tourists that there were no accommodations for the temporary summer staff. So hotel, restaurant, and even retail employers would have some kind of cheap and very rough housing deal for temp staff. Mattresses on the floor kind of thing, and only on an as-needed basis. Because of the unique housing tension in SF, I'd guess that some employers do that there as well.