For most of her life until this past spring, 9-year-old Winnie Tan lived with her parents and older brother in an apartment in Chinatown — one of hundreds of families in the neighborhood’s single-room-occupancy units, known as SROs. Earlier this year, Winnie and her family were selected to be part of the federal Emergency Housing Voucher Program, funded by the COVID-19 American Rescue Plan Act, which seeks to provide long-term rental assistance to people at risk of homelessness. This meant that in May, Winnie’s family moved out of the SRO, where conditions were crowded and air quality poor, said Winnie’s father Junchang Tan, into a three-bedroom house in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The Tans are one of about 900 households in San Francisco — including about a dozen in Chinatown — benefiting from the vouchers, said Karen Chan, a legislative aide for San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: @gabrielleluriephoto