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From within the walls of their 80 sqft SRO hotel rooms, a diverse group of San Franciscans strive against systemic forces and a housing crisis with hope and humor in their search for a place to call home.

SYNOPSIS

Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution – cramped Single Room Occupancy units – impact the lives of those who live in them? Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco’s SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over six years. This character-driven, verité documentary immerses viewers in what it means to call a single room home in the heart of one of America’s richest cities. It’s the story of an immigrant single mom in Chinatown, a blind songwriter fighting harassment and eviction, an ex-couple in recovery co-parenting a six-year-old son, a graffiti artist who paints murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood, and a determined mother on a quest to find her runaway daughter all of them trying to better their lives within the four walls of rentals as tiny as 80 square feet.

FILM STILLS

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Sylvester Prepares a skateboard for painting in his SRO.

Esther

Hallway

Jacque

Sylvester Prepares a skateboard for painting in his SRO.

Sunbear

Hallway Scooter

Sunbear Family

Jacque And Zallah

Christina Lion Dance

Christina And Her Daughter

Shirley Tablet

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Co-Parenting
71.5MB/MP4
00:38
Esther
25.9MB/MP4
00.54
Christina
43.9MB/MP4
00:23
Sylvester
20.4MB/MP4
00:43