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You missed the last half of that sentence. It's a room, not a house, that you will be likely be sharing with someone else.

> room in a shared apartment or house.

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The target audience of volunteers for this type of position are people that are probably used to happily sleeping in tents and eating camp food for days/weeks at a time. I don't think they'd mind.

guess it's a race to the bottom then

It’s for the self-selecting who see it as an experience, not a race.

Why would you expect it to be an entire house for one person? It's a volunteer position in a national park, not Jimmy Carters newest deal: homes for extremely introverted humans.

As somebody that's enjoyed many months living exclusively in hostels:

You're out of your mind. Homes should be a standard. That's like, one of the basic human wants/needs as an organism. And having the privacy of your own space is essential to the human psyche.

What?

Which part are you confused about? I like to have a lock on my door.

The part where you started comparing a private room in a shared house/apartment, with a hostel.

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