SRO
Inside the Affordable Chinatown Haven That Narrowly Avoided ‘Renoviction’
Residents of the May Wah still pay less than $500 a month—a rare exception in a rapidly gentrifying Vancouver neighbourhood.
These Photos Helped Me Understand My Dad's Overdose Death
Photographer Jackie Dives talks about the double exposures that helped her process the grief of losing a parent to addiction.
Life Inside Vancouver’s Most Notorious Housing Block
Meet the tenants living in the city’s most complained-about single room occupancy hotels.
How to Break into the San Francisco Giants' Baseball Stadium
This is the last in a four-part series on housing the substantial homeless population in San Francisco. Randy showed us what it's like living in the margins of America's most overpriced city.
Meet the Guy Who Earns His Living Drawing Peanuts Characters on Their Period
Living in an SRO means you're either one step out of homelessness or one step away from it. As part of our series on housing the homeless in San Francisco, we talked to a man who spends his days wandering between bars in the Mission and drawing dirty...
Visiting the Last Remnants of San Francisco's Low Income Apartment Buildings
San Francisco's SROs (single room occupancy housing) once used to function as low-cost dormitory-style apartments for the city's artists, students, and transient workers. In the first in a three-part series, we look at SROs today: mismanaged apartments...