Chinatown Substandard Housing Report
Low-income renters in San Francisco often live in unhealthy and unsafe housing. Tenants trace the roots of these conditions to the lack of affordable housing, living wage jobs, and support in knowing their rights and health risks. In Chinatown, specifically, they also point to barriers of language and public transportation to explain why they put up with Chinatown’s poor housing conditions. Given the extremely limited options for low-income immigrant tenants in San Francisco, it is particularly important for government agencies to ensure that housing, health, and fire codes are adequately enforced in these communities and the health and safety of vulnerable residents are protected.
Date:
Monday, August 1, 2005 
