> 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 pl

> 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