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The term for housing troops is called quartering or billeting. The quartering of troops in private residences is expressly forbidden in the US Constitution.
Synonyms include student housing, campus housing, or residence hall. The military term is barracks.
Short Term housing is anything that is leased or rented for least than a 1 year contract. Normally this type of housing is arranged for a business who nees to transfer from one city to another or on a long term business assignment. Insurance company's use short term housing when a homeowner has had damage and unable to stay in the home until repairs are done.
The minimum length for short-term housing is typically a month. Emergency short-term housing can be for as short as a week. If renting for a normal landlord most will want a lease of as least 3 months.
They can be, although the term "troop" is not generally used. Kangaroos live and travel in mobs, herds or troops. The most common term is "mob".
One website to check out is biz-stay.com. They have many different listings and even have them sorted by parts of Houston. You can find them at http://houston-extended-stay.biz-stay.com/home.cfm. Another website you might want to check out is Richdale Apartments as they have some short term housing options. Go to http://www.richdale.com/corp/houston/ to get started. Another option is Houston Temporary Housing at http://www.houstontemphousing.com/.
Transitional housing exists to help people who need short term housing. The reason for this depends on where someone is in their life.
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You can find information about short term housing on the following website: http://www.rentals.com/. They have a lot of useful information.
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A couple of the best sites for finding short term housing are apartment guide dot com and corporate housing by owner dot com. There are more out there if these two do not suffice to what you want.