Although San Francisco's Chinatown is popular with tourists, it hides the city's worst housing conditions in high-density SROs.
"For decades, Chinatown's 145 residential hotels, known as SROs, have represented what one county supervisor calls the most embarrassing secret in an otherwise glittering city where housing costs for a decade have been the nation's least affordable... Since March, building inspectors have found 1,578 code violations in the city's 20 worst SRO hotels. More than a quarter of those are in Chinatown."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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