Editing YMCA (section)

=== Accommodation ===
[[File:YMCAHousing.jpg|thumb|A YMCA with residential housing in [[Downtown Columbus, Ohio|Downtown]] [[Columbus, Ohio]] in 2021]]
YMCAs around the world offer various types of accommodation. In some places, this takes the form of budget accommodation available to the public such as youth hostels, or hotels, which, in turn, generate income for other charitable activities. In [[England]] and [[Wales]], YMCAs offer supported accommodation for vulnerable and homeless young people.<ref name="Accommodation">{{cite web |title=Accommodation |url=https://www.ymca.org.uk/about/what-we-do/accommodation |access-date=2019-12-21 |website=YMCA England & Wales |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Until the late 1950s,<ref name="YMCAhistory" /> YMCAs in the United States were built with hotel-like rooms called residences or dormitories. These rooms were built with the young men in mind coming from rural America and many foreign-born young men arriving to the new cities. The rooms became a significant part of [[American culture]], known as an inexpensive and safe place for a visitor to stay in an unfamiliar city (as, for example, in the 1978 [[Village People]] song "[[Y.M.C.A. (song)|Y.M.C.A.]]"). In 1940, there were about 100,000 rooms at YMCAs, more than any hotel chain. By 2006, YMCAs with residences had become relatively rare in the US, but many still remain.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glendale, California YMCA |url=http://www.glendaleymca.org/residence.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927110236/http://www.glendaleymca.org/residence.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |access-date=4 April 2011}}, {{cite web|title=McGaw YMCA – Evanston, Illinois|url=http://www.mcgawymca.org|access-date=4 April 2011}}, {{cite web|title=Berkeley, California YMCA|url=http://www.baymca.org/index.php/d_hotel.html|access-date=4 April 2011}}</ref>