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SRO Collaborative Celebrates 5th Anniversary
The Central City SRO (Single Rent Occupancy) Collaborative recently celebrated its fifth year anniversary. Located in the Tenderloin, the organization has been organizing SRO tenants in San Francisco’s central city neighborhoods in order than they can better utilize the affordable housing options available to them. SRO organizers, supporters and tenants celebrated with a jazz band, a display of photographs by tenant rep Mark Ellinger depicting local streetscapes and neighborhoods, and a showing of the documentary called “Hotel City,” which centers on the Collaborative’s work.
Since its inception in 2001, the SRO Collaborative has worked tirelessly to promote the housing rights of residents who live in the city’s most prolific kind of low cost rental housing. SROs are small single room living spaces, usually without a kitchen or personal bathroom. Over 500 hotels in San Francisco are designated for SRO residents and historically these places have been vulnerable to disrepair, fire and demolishment.
The SRO Collaborative has launched numerous campaigns to expand the options and preserve the rights of tenants to live in affordable, clean and safe rental housing. The group helped to pass a law in 2001 that requires all SRO hotels to install sprinklers in every room. By passing this law, “we eliminated the number one worry of residents” said Sam Dodge, Program Coordinator.
The organization also saved SRO hotels – including the Empress/West Cork Hotel and the Trinity Plaza - from conversion to tourist use.
Dodge described the Collaborative’s five year mission as being the “preservation, creation and utilization” of affordable housing options for SF residents. He estimated that they had saved 1000s of units over the years which translates to 1000s of people who didn’t get evicted and the retention of a fair number of rent controlled units.
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The SRO Collaborative has launched numerous campaigns to expand the options and preserve the rights of tenants to live in affordable, clean and safe rental housing. The group helped to pass a law in 2001 that requires all SRO hotels to install sprinklers in every room. By passing this law, “we eliminated the number one worry of residents” said Sam Dodge, Program Coordinator.
The organization also saved SRO hotels – including the Empress/West Cork Hotel and the Trinity Plaza - from conversion to tourist use.
Dodge described the Collaborative’s five year mission as being the “preservation, creation and utilization” of affordable housing options for SF residents. He estimated that they had saved 1000s of units over the years which translates to 1000s of people who didn’t get evicted and the retention of a fair number of rent controlled units.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3543#more
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