Classification of Accommodations of collective dwellings

• 4 - Service collective dwellings

4.1 - Lodging and rooming houses

This category includes commercial establishments (which may originally have been a private dwelling) that have furnished rooms for rent. Residents receive no type of care. They generally have access to common facilities such as the kitchen and/or bathroom. Generally, the clientele are transitioning between housing tenures or locations, and have no other place of residence.

Some types of non-institutional collective dwellings provide furnished accommodations without any type of care, but they are not 'lodging or rooming houses.' Usually, they serve a specific clientele. To illustrate, religious establishments are for members of a religious group; hotels or motels are for business travellers or persons on pleasure trips; school residences are for students; or, work camps are for employees of an industry. Such collective dwellings are excluded from this category.