After 9 Years, This Family Moved Out of Their 100-Square-Foot Home
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- In February 2023, The Standard was invited inside a tiny SRO (Single Room Occupancy) where a family of six had been living in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood. They had lived in this 100-square-foot room for 9 long years.
A few months later, they were finally able to move to a decent-sized apartment. The Standard followed up with the family to see how their lives had dramatically changed.
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I'm so happy for them! I just watched the video of their previous living arrangements. What a difference!
I am so happy for this family. God Bless you all. I love San Fransisco 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🙋🥰
How wonderful! I wish them much happiness and all the blessings for a good life.
Congratulations! God bless them!
With all the garbage news these days this was awesome. Good for them I hope the future only gets brighter for them.
About time San Francisco. No one should have to live in any of SF's dilapidated SROs. And, no one should have to wait YEARS to receive decent housing. If such wait times ARE STILL due to SFHA corruption, the guilty personnel should be rooted out and prosecuted.
after nine year why no english to help get a higher paying job in America
They are low income and they have low English proficiency. They have to work and take care of the children. There's no time to go to a class to study English. Plus there's little incentive in San Francisco to learn English when community resources are available in Chinese. Newspapers are in Chinese. Radio programs are in Cantonese. News television programs are in Cantonese and Mandarin. The workplace is Cantonese speaking. Voting materials are available in Chinese. The California DMV driver's guide book is available in Chinese. Healthcare at Chinese Hospital or Northeast Medical Services is available in Cantonese.
I live in San Francisco. I’m so happy for this family. They deserved a break
More money needs to be diverted to this from programs enabling and supporting junkies.
god bless you derisive this!
why am I crying
Notice how they have always worked hard. They will continue to work hard, and then both parents make the effort to stick around, give their children a better future, and hope their kids focus on their studies to be productive members of society. And people wonder why other cultures in America are subpar.
Actually that is a question for me. I did not notice how they have worked hard. In the accompanying article, I read that the mother has a part time job (as a receptionist I think) and the father is not employed. Please let me know what you saw that showed their ambition, drive, or persistence. I would like to see such assistance given to immigrants who have the drive and character to improve their lives. However, I'm not sure about these parents being that, given that after 9 years of being in the US, they don't seem to have significantly improved their situation. However, seeing them on screen, having a much better life does make me smile, whether or not they "deserved" it. I am especially happy for the kids.
@@flightoffancy7 that's actually a fair point. I guess my assumptions were wrong. I am happy for the kids though
@@flightoffancy7 The fathers takes care of the children.
All the best to them in their new home 🏡 ❤🎉.
You need to show this in Hong Kong, where u won’t need subtitles. The SRO = what’s called a subdivided flat in HK. Section 8 = what’s possible when u don’t have to live under slumlords, one of whom is the Financial Secretary.
This video is viewable in Hong Kong.
Maybe try not having kids when you are broke.
great for them but please take English classes a must to survive in SF
Mixed feelings for this case. I'm happy that their situation did improve quite a lot. But I have questions - what kind of immigrants were they, the type that 1) comes to make it, or the type that 2) just comes. During their 9 years in the SRO, what did they do to improve their situation? How did they fight for a better life? What led them to come to the US at all if they would suffer so much being here, what was their goal? Was their immigration thesis simply to just come and accept a life of poverty because it would at least be better than life in their hometown? 9 years after arriving, has not much has changed (in terms of skills, job, opportunities, income, english), except that they have more kids? Have they really tried and failed for 9 years, or did they not try the way some other immigrants would? If they were the kind of immigrants whose goal was to simply arrive and tread water while hoping for the best, that doesn't make them bad people. But I think that other types of immigrants, the types that have the fight in them, should have higher priority for receiving assistance and rewards. I am happy to see this mother smile in the video about her new home, but I wonder if immigrants like them will endlessly continue to come and suffer, in part encouraged by the benefits received by this family and other families like it - awarding benefits to them creates this distortion in the calculus of whether to immigrate. All of that said, I understand how urgent it is to get those kids into a better living situation, and I am still glad to see that these kids will grow up in comfort. Again, mixed feelings.
They are the kind of immigrants to come to America to make it. They are no different than my family when my parents came to San Francisco in the late 1950s.
Chinese nationals are not free to pick the place they want to live in within the country of China. The Hukou (户口) household registration system prevents that. A household registration record officially identifies a person as a permanent resident of an area and includes identifying information such as name, parents, spouse and date of birth. Due to its connection to social programs provided by the government, which assigns benefits based on agricultural and non-agricultural residency status (often referred to as rural and urban), the hukou system is sometimes likened to a form of caste system. It has been the source of much inequality over the decades since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, as urban residents received benefits that ranged from retirement pension to education to health care, while rural citizens were often left to fend for themselves. A major objective of the hukou system implemented by the central government was thus to control the stream of resources moving away from the agricultural sector. The hukou system effectively "forbid the peasantry to exit agriculture."
They came to the US to make a better life for themselves and to start a family. I'm 100% sure they prefer America over China and I'm sure they'd rather struggle in America than back at home because of better financial capacities here of providing assistance. They, like many ethnic groups who flee their country come here to work hard to provide. They've abandoned everything back at home to provide a better life and opportunity. It's not easy in those 9 years I'm sure. You come to a new country, new rules, different culture, it takes a lot of time to assimilate. Most immigrants start off working for people while saving as many pennies as they can. I'd say my family is a great example of that... decades later my parent's children --my siblings and I,, graduated college, work for corporate America, started a business, buy property, start a family.. and a new cycle will continue years forward.
Well I’m crying!
I don’t know how they lived in it
now i hope criminals dont come and try to take things away from them or push them over.