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Committee approves ordinance clarifying census access to San Francisco SRO hotels
Summary
The committee approved an amendment to the administrative code clarifying that census workers, including city-contracted census outreach organizations, may access single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. and must show identification or city documentation.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to the administrative code to ensure census workers can access single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels for census outreach.
Jeremy Pollock, representing the ordinance’s author, told the committee that SRO residents are frequently left out of the count and urged explicit access to SROs so the city does not lose federal funding. “We need to be extra vigilant to make sure they have access,” Pollock said, noting the city has an estimated 500 SROs totaling about 20,000 units. Rick Mishke, field operations supervisor for the Census Bureau’s San Francisco East Office, said the Bureau’s group-quarters enumeration begins March 19 and…
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