Rooming and Boarding Housesin USA
USA Market Research and Industry Report
19 November 2007
Industry Code : 72131
The industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating rooming and boarding houses and similar facilities, such as fraternity houses, sorority houses, off-campus dormitories, residential clubs and workers' camps. These establishments provide temporary or longer-term accommodation which, for the period of occupancy, may serve as a principal residence. These establishments also may provide complementary services, such as housekeeping, meals and laundry services. In more detail, a rooming house is any building in which renters occupy single rooms and share kitchens, bathrooms and common areas. The building may be a converted single-family house, a converted hotel or hostel or a purpose-built structure. Rooming houses may have as little as three rooms to rent to more than a hundred. Boarding houses offer tenants food and other services in addition to accommodation. Major tenants of rooming and boarding houses include: people on social security, people on minimum wage jobs, new immigrants, farm workers, refugees, elderly on low income, the disabled, students and people with alcohol or other substance dependency or mental health problems.
The major products and services in this industry are:
| - | Rooming & Boarding Houses |
| - | Fraternity/Sorority Houses |
| - | Migrant & Farm Workers | |
The primary activities of this industry are:
| - | Boarding houses |
| - | Clubs, residential |
| - | Off campus dormitories |
| - | Fraternity houses |
| - | Migrant workers' camps |
| - | Rooming and Boarding Houses |
| - | Sorority houses |
| - | Workers' camps |
| - | Workers' dormitories | |
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