Chinatown's Hidden Poverty: How a Family of Six Survives Living in a Tiny Room

San Francisco is home to thousands of SROs, or Single Room Occupancy units, originally designed to fit one person. These small rooms, typically around 100 square feet, used to house San Francisco's low-wage workers, transient laborers and immigrants. Now, they are home to an increasingly large number of families, predominantly located in the city's Chinatown and Tenderloin neighborhoods.

Miyu Yu, her husband and four children have been living in one SRO in San Francisco's Chinatown for the past 9 years. Three of those years have been during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Watch our video to see how Yu and her family have navigated living in such a small space.

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