Editing Boarding house (section)

== Similar concepts ==
[[File:Rogers Street North 221, Old Boarding House-Recovery Engagement Center, Bloomington West Side HD.jpg|thumb|Old Boarding House Recovery Engagement Center, [[Bloomington, Indiana]], US]]
[[File:Kajaani matkustajakoti 1989.jpg|thumb|A former boarding house in [[Kajaani|Kajaani, Finland]] in 1989]]
The [[common lodging-house]] or [[flophouse]] usually offered a space to sleep but little else. When used for temporary purposes, the arrangement was similar to a [[hostel]]. Flophouse beds may offer dormitory-style space for as little as one night at a time.

[[Group homes]], residences that provide supervision and [[assisted living]] for adults with neurological disabilities or children unable to live with family, share characteristics with boarding houses.

A lodging house, also known in the [[United States]] as a [[rooming house]], may or may not offer meals.

[[Single-room occupancy]] (SRO) buildings rent individual rooms to residents and have a shared bathroom; some may have a shared kitchen space for residents to cook their own meals.<ref name="Graham" />

[[Dormitory]] accommodations for postsecondary students are similar to a boarding houses when they include cafeterias.<ref name="Graham" />

In the 2010s, [[microapartments]], with one or two rooms rented and access to shared common spaces in the building, are very similar to boarding houses.<ref name="Graham" /> [[WeWork]], a company mostly known for its shared [[coworking]] rental spaces, is also offering shared housing arrangements in which renters get a private bedroom but share a kitchen, living room, and other common areas.

[[Bed and breakfast]] accommodation (B&B), which exists in many countries in the world (such as the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], [[Canada]], and [[Australia]]), is a specialized form of boarding house in which the guests or boarders normally stay only on a bed-and-breakfast basis, and long-term residence is rare.

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However, some B&B accommodation is made available on a long-term basis to British [[local authorities]] which are legally obliged to house persons and families for whom they have no [[social housing]] available.{{clarify|date=May 2015}} Some such boarding houses allow large groups with low incomes to share overcrowded rooms or otherwise exploit people with problems rendering them vulnerable, such as those with irregular immigration status. Such a boarding-house may well cease to be attractive to short-term lodgers, and the residents may remain in unsatisfactory accommodation for long periods. Much old seaside accommodation is so used since cheap flights have reduced demand for their original seasonal holiday use.
 
Apart from the worldwide spread of the concept of the B&B, there are equivalents of the British boarding houses elsewhere in the world. For example, in [[Japan]], [[minshuku]] are an almost exact equivalent although the normal arrangement would be the equivalent of the English half-board. In [[Hawaii]], where the cost of living is high and incomes barely keep pace,{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} it is common to take in lodgers (who are boarders in English terminology) that share the burden of the overall rent or [[mortgage loan|mortgage]] payable.

In the [[Indian subcontinent]], boarders are also known as "[[homestay|paying guests]]". They stay in a home and share a room with domestic facilities. Rates are nominal and monthly charges usually include food, bed, table, and a cupboard. The rent can go higher for a room in an upscale locality with facilities like single occupancy, air conditioning, and high-speed wireless internet access.