The City of San Francisco just filed a lawsuit against the owners of three single room occupancy hotels in Chinatown.
Chiu said this is the most significant legal action he has taken in Chinatown so far as it pertains to substandard conditions in SROs.Inside an SRO hotel in Chinatown, Yang Fen Liu has been living in a tiny 10-by-10-foot room for nearly 3 decades. Liu said there's an ongoing rat and roach problem, the ceiling leaks, and she doesn't have hot water. Liu says the problems started in 2014 when Laurel Reality took over the building.
'You cannot do kind of things in Chinatown in San Francisco because if you do, the city will step in," said Malcolm Yeung, Executive Director of Chinatown Community Development Center.
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