Can the quality of housing for the poor be improved without leaving the very poorest homeless? - Malcolm Gladwell
Single Rooms
Some 28 percent of American households consist of a single person living alone, yet fewer than 1 percent of housing units are studios. Source
“The interesting question is not who is at the bottom of the housing list, by why the bottom of the housing distributions is on the street rather than at the Sunshine, where is was thirty years ago” - Source
New York City banned the construction of new SROs altogether in 1955. - Source