Residents of communal housing in San Francisco’s Chinatown are organizing to keep their students home. According to a survey of residents living in Single Room Occupancy hotels in Chinatown (or SROs) by the Chinatown Community Development Center, 70% of families in communal housing oppose in-person learning for their kids. A combination of factors — like a reliance on public transportation and the inability to quarantine in communal housing — are contributing to these feelings. 

Guest: Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, producer and reporter for KQED

Epiosde transcript here: https://bit.ly/3BRgdxR

This episode was produced by Christopher Beale, Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and Alan Montecillo, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevarra.

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