Management also provides maid service and even complimentary breakfast with a daily newspaper.
Such accommodations blur the line between a hotel and an apartment. In fact, the similarity is part of the advertising pitch. That is, until you realize we re actually not a hotel. The short-term rental trend coincides exactly with the city s precipitous decline in affordable housing. Both were spurred by a 1995 state law that allows landlords to rent voluntarily vacated rent-controlled apartments for what the market can bear.