A San Francisco family living in a single room occupancy hotel in Chinatown has a chance of a lifetime.
Every day, Xiaoping Su comes home to a 100-square-foot unit in San Francisco Chinatown that is packed with all her personal belongings.They pay $700-hundred dollars a month to live in a 10-by-10 unit in a single room occupancy hotel -- an SRO.''These are communal living situations. The rooms are typically 80 to 100 square feet, no private kitchen, no private baths. You are sharing.
ABC7News partner, the SF Standard newspaper and reporter Han Li, have done extensive reporting on these challenging SRO housing conditions. And they even highlighted efforts to help the Su family get to the White House. "...Our kids who live in single room occupancy hotels, here in Chinatown--kids who don't have opportunities like this and don't have opportunities to get out of San Francisco very much," said Yeung. "Any opportunity to get outside or to inspire a little bit of hope, to spark something in these families, these kids, I think we want to grab those opportunities."
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