International Hotel

The International Hotel appears in Two indicators for lowering the rent as a San Francisco SRO whose 1977 eviction became a landmark displacement case. The episode says it housed mostly elderly Filipino and Chinese people and that more than 2,000 protesters tried to stop the evictions.

The source uses the International Hotel to make SRO Loss And Homelessness concrete. Its eviction sits inside the broader 1970s disappearance or conversion of around a million SRO rooms, showing how SRO Regulatory Erasure and redevelopment pressure could remove a cheap housing rung for older, poor, immigrant, and single residents.

Connections

• Single-Room Occupancy Housing - housing type represented by the hotel.
• SRO Regulatory Erasure - broader process in which the hotel was lost.
• SRO Loss And Homelessness - homelessness link the episode draws from SRO closures.
• Shared Housing Revival - current policy response framed against this history.