A Community Living Room For Immigrant Families [rwjf.org]
Dinnertime is stressful for Ruiyi Li, a married mother of two who lives in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She has to wait in line for almost an hour to use a communal kitchen in the building where her family rents a single room for $400 a month. Then there’s the problem of how to eat the meal. The family’s tight dwelling is slightly wider and longer than the size of a double bed, with no space for a table. Li, her husband, son and daughter must sit one next to the other on the edge of the lower...