Cheap short-term (nightly to weekly) housing used to be all over the United States in the form of dormitories (YMCA was huge), SROs (single room occupancy), cag

Cheap short-term (nightly to weekly) housing used to be all over the United States in the form of dormitories (YMCA was huge), SROs (single room occupancy), cage hotels, flophouses, and boarding houses. Because of zoning and building code changes this kind of housing essentially stopped being built after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse#Cage_hotels_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse#Cage_hotels_in_the_U...