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Census takers worry that apartment renters were undercounted

by Mike Schneider
| July 5, 2021 1:03 PM

Census taker Linda Rothfield's government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because of the pandemic.

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