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Lifen Deng brings her condiments to the communal kitchen down the hall.

Photo: Brant Ward / The Chronicle

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Zhihua Mo (right) lifts his father onto his back from a wheelchair to get him back inside his building. Three generations of the Mo family have made their homes and lived their lives in small but tidy Chinatown SROs.
A Chinatown scene: men walk and loiter near a popular Stockton Street market. Three generations of the Mo family have made their homes and lived their lives in small but tidy Chinatown SROs (single resident occupancy).
Zhihua Mo walks down the hallway of his father's SRO building to retrieve some water. Three generations of the Mo family have made their homes and lived their lives in small but tidy Chinatown SROs (single resident occupancy).
Lifen Deng brings her condiments to the communal kitchen down the hall.
Lifen Deng prepares her meal with other women from the same floor of the building.
The Mo family enjoy the evening meal in front of a television monitor where they watch a downloaded Chinese show. They use the bottom bunk of their bed to sit as there is no room for chairs.
Zhihua Mo and his father make their way from a bakery on Broadway to the medical clinic.
Lifen Deng, the mother, enjoys a private moment in front of the television in her SRO home as she prepares to make the evening meal.
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