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The History Of Single Room Occupancy Hotels In Seattle's Chinatown International District
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:10:53
Publish Date: 2018-11-10 12:03:00
Description: Residential hotels once filled a crucial niche for low-income workers and immigrants, a bridge between affordable housing and a shelter. These Single Room Occupancy hotels, or SROs, used to dominate the streetscape in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Now they’re nearly extinct. It’s a story that caught the attention of Marie Wong, an Associate Professor at Seattle University. It appealed to her background in urban planning, but also to her background as a Chinese American growing up in the Midwest.
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