Do you guys have "tiny hotels" in your city? This place opened up nearby in a former hair salon, which at first I thought was to get rid of excess apartment capacity for short-term rentals, but apparently it's a very cheap hotel with tiny tiny rooms:
https://www.hotelbnbusa.com/
From their web site, this is what their rooms look like:
Rooms are very reasonably priced, almost as cheap as a hostel, but you get a private bedroom (still shared bathroom). I haven't seen anything like this around here before.... are these common in the US?