Rejected Chinatown Development in Vancouver Faces Possible Revival

posted by Olivia Wolf

 
A Green Party Councilor is urging the city of Vancouver, British Columbia to turn a site originally proposed for a condominium project into mostly housing for senior citizens, reports News 1130.
 
The Beedie Development Group originally planned to develop the site on the 100 block of Keefer Street into 106 market housing … Read more

Desperate Time for Chinatown Residents Looking for Affordable Housing

posted by Randall

 
Two news stories exemplify the desperate situation for Chinatown residents looking for affordable housing.

With the average rent in Oakland at $2400 a month, hundreds of Chinatown seniors waited as long as overnight for a chance to be put on a waiting list for subsidized housing, reports ABC7.

While in the local courts, … Read more

California Investigating Airbnb Incident

posted by Louis Chan

By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent

Investigators in California are looking into a widely publicized alleged incident of discrimination against an Asian American by an Airbnb host.

Dyne Suh of Southern California has filed a formal complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

A video about the incident went viral on social … Read more

Home is Where the Money Is: The Gentrification of Boston’s Chinatown

posted by Lisa Dinh

Gentrification, an otherwise opaque buzzword for city-dwellers, has a face in one of the world’s most expensive cities: Boston. Pei Ying Yu and Yan Nong Yu are two elder Chinese American sisters featured in a recent BuzzFeed article on housing displacement. The women immigrated to America in 2008 and 2010 respectively. Since then, they have … Read more

DNA Info: New York Chinatown Groups Demand Mayor de Blasio’s Resignation

posted by Randall

Members of dozens of neighborhood organizations protested outside city hall and accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of not working to preserve low income housing in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, reported DNA Info.

The Chinatown Working Group, a coalition of 52 organizations, demanded that de Blasio resign and held up an unflattering paper … Read more

ABC7: Judge Inspects Dilapidated Chinatown Apartment

posted by Randall

A judge hearing a lawsuit brought by tenants of an Oakland Chinatown apartment building that has been described as roach-infested paid a visit Wednesday to see the conditions for himself, reports ABC7.

The tenants allege the new landlord has allowed the building to deteriorate to force them out so it can be rented to … Read more

KPIX: Chinatown Tenants Face Eviction

posted by Randall

The city of Oakland in California is suing the new owners of a single occupancy tenement accusing the landlords of making conditions unbearable to force the low income tenants out, reports KPIX.

 

28 families have been forced to share three toilets and a single kitchen since contractors gutted the old ones five months ago.

… Read more

Blog: Another Chinatown Falling on Hard Times

posted by Randall

By Ed Diokno

Like other Chinatowns in other cities, the existence of Oakland Chinatown is threatened.

The cultural, spiritual and symbolic home of Chinese Americans in San Francisco’s East Bay is several square blocks south of Broadway, sandwiched between downtown, Jack London Square and the Lake … Read more

Blog: Hello Parody Targets San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee

posted by Randall

By Ed Diokno

As San Francisco rents soar, home prices are out of reach for the middle-class.  Affordable housing is getting more out of reach in the neighborhoods that make up the character of this city, including homes for the newly arrive immigrants and elderly on limited incomes in Chinatown, South of Market (Filipino American), … Read more

NPR: Asian Americans Get Less Rental Income from AirBNB Rentals Than Whites

posted by Randall

There’s an interesting study out about discrimination, but with a twist.

A study conducted by students at Harvard found that Asian Americans get on average 20 percent less per week for their AirBNB rentals than Whites, reports NPR.

The study published in the Journal of Technology looked at AirBNB hosts … Read more