For families living in SROs, coordinated entry actually acts as a barrier to accessing services.

Heather Knight has a good piece on an SRO in the Mission where 20 families make their home.

The tech-fueled economic boom has hit 16th and Mission streets in a big way, bringing with it Google buses, expensive condos and high-priced restaurants and boutiques. But just a few properties down from the famed intersection is the dubiously named Grand Southern Hotel, a single room occupancy hotel with 60 units. Many of them house families, and 22 children live inside – the most of any SRO in the Mission.  READ MORE

Mission Local wrote about the same hotel in 2010.

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