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There are several manufactures of combination Microwave/Mini-Fridges which could be mandated to be in the rooms, just like the bed and chair people get promised. That would solve meds storage problems and provide a safe storage place for small meals, snacks, etc. The microwave could be used to heat food and liquids. To bolster that situation, we could mandate that SROs have a community kitchen with dry food storage lockers for residents.

Food stamps is great, farmers markets are also great, but the problem is storage and preparation areas not existing. The owners of the SROS must be receiving something besides rent from the City, so why can't we ask them to provide better, more sustainable living quarters?

One problem that MIGHT exist is that many of the rooms in SROs only have ONE outlet for the entire room and so people are forced to daisy chain their cables, which is dangerous. Ask yourself what you would do if you only had ONE outlet. Not much and if you over load it in these old buildings, the whole floor goes out.

So really, who are we kidding with any of these answers? You can't put something reasonable together inside a room that isn't set up for it. All you are doing, that I can see, with this site, is coming up with new way to force people to leave their homes and eat out all the time.

You can't keep ignoring the infrastructure of the buildings being discussed here or you're just going to continue to come up with band-aid solutions.

Also, I notice that the judges are not residents. So I am skeptical about any of this working out.

Cooking requires energy - electric mainly in this case - and if you can't use the electricity because you only have one outlet and even when you use that it causes an outage then you are back to square one and none of your ideas have bothered to look at that BASIC foundational question.

Communal kitchens and minimal cooking tools in the room could solve this. Too bad the buildings can't sustain that.