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> We made that illegal, effetively I've not heard of this, how was it made illegal?

• samatman 4y ago
  > In 1917, California passed a new hotel act that prevented the building of new hotels with small cubicle rooms.[0] That's California, but it isn't the only place which has restricted SROs. In some places they were explicitly legislated out of existence, others were squeezed out by the sum of various zoning and occupancy restrictions. Things like a requirement that a common kitchen adhere to commercial rather than residential standards, requiring a certain number of bathrooms per resident, and so on. Also very much worth noting that in many cases, a woman's boarding house was presumed by law to be of ill repute, these laws having lasted into recent decades in places (I know this was still on the books in 1990s Chicago, for an example). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy#History
• ascagnel_ 4y ago
  Zoning regulations, which have substantial knock-on effects on everything from traffic to mental health. When you think of suburban sprawl (especially in the US and Canada), it's largely the result of zoning regulations -- minimum distance between structures, minimum setbacks from the street, parking requirements, limiting areas where multi-family dwellings can be built, etc.