Svetlana Velmar-Janković

A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. It normally provides "room and board," with some meals as well as accommodation.

Lodgers legally obtain a licence, not exclusive possession, to use their rooms and so the landlord retains the right of access. (Full article...)

• ... that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate?
• ... that a 1905 steam-powered pump was assembled on-site in Virginia with its housing constructed around it?
• ... that when UCLA was founded in 1919, the university's students provided numerous services, including athletics, housing, and parking?
• ... that an apartment building that once housed North Korean soldiers, the American CIA, and United Nations troops is set to be demolished?
• ... that Diana Vicezar created recycled housing for street dogs, a recruitment platform for international students, and a podcast about Latin American students in Ireland?
• ... that Vincent Darré had a Parisian apartment decorated with skulls?
• ... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
• ... that although the Wilbraham was built as an apartment building for bachelors, more women than men lived there by 1929?

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