Chinatown Community for Equitable Development

RAISE INCOME, NOT RENT! “AFFORDABLE” HOUSING IS NOT AFFORDABLE! Last Saturday, April 4, Chinatown came together to demand a rent freeze! We marched from Chinatown to LA City Hall to demand the following: Stop all evictions! Freeze rent now! Cap the rent! Alto a todos los desalojos! ¡Congelen la renta ahora! ¡Limita a los aumentso de renta! 停止所有驅逐 ! 立即凍結租金 ! 限制租金上漲 ! Many Chinatown residents pay between 70-90% of our income for rent, and these absurd 8%+ rent increases we face are legal under current rent policy in LA and CA. Additionally, our unhoused comrades living in Chinatown continue to be harassed and mistreated, with sweeps constantly endangering them. Greedy developers, ICE, and CBP are threatening our communities. But together, we stand against gentrification and terror! CHINATOWN IS NOT FOR SALE! CHINATOWN UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED! Sign our petition at the link in our bio to take action today! Share this petition and post widely to the community! tinyurl.com/CTHousingPetition26 Many thanks to the housed and unhoused tenants of Metro Senior Loft, Yale Terrace, Bartlett, @hillsidevilla_ Cathay Manor, Blossom Plaza, @jtownaction @lastreetcare @stopthegondola @reclaiminghomes @echoparklatu @uniondela8 @latu_ktown @latenantslhts and @latenants ! #RentFreezeNow #EvictIceNotUs #RaiseIncomeNotRent #HousingIsAHumanRight #ChinatownIsNotForSale Alt text embedded & image descriptions in comments thread below

The Hillside Villa case represents one of the longest-running rent strikes in recent Los Angeles history, occurring amid a broader housing crisis that resulted in more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA County last year. The city of Los Angeles negotiated a deal in April 2024 that extended those covenants for the next 10 years. Tenants who signed the agreement agreed to pay their rent again from June 2025 onward. Learn more To learn more read the full article by Phoenix Tso @phoenixtso via the link in our bio or at lapublicpress.org

🚨 RAISE INCOME, NOT RENT TOWN HALL 🚨 We invited elected officials and candidates from different levels of government representing Chinatown. As of today, @raeforla , @kennethmejiala , and @aida4la are planning to attend to hear from the community! The other invitees include @senatormed , @asmmarkgonzalez , @eunissesh , @nithyaforthecity , and @marissaroy_la Come unite with your neighbors and share your vision for stronger rent control and community power in Chinatown and beyond! The purpose of the Town Hall is to discuss issues greatly affecting tenants in Chinatown, including 8%+ annual rent increases that are far outpacing income and leaving many tenants who do not live in RSO buildings extremely vulnerable to displacement. Seats will be prioritized for Chinatown tenants and workers. Cantonese and Spanish translations provided. RSVP at https://ccedla.solidarity.tech/affordable-rent-townhall Registration is required so we can make sure there is sufficient seating and language accommodations.

Come unite with your neighbors and share your vision for stronger rent control and community power in Chinatown and beyond! The purpose of the Town Hall is to discuss issues greatly affecting tenants in Chinatown, including 8%+ annual rent increases that are far outpacing income and leaving many tenants who do not live in RSO buildings extremely vulnerable to displacement. Local politicians are invited to listen and respond to our community. Seats will be prioritized for Chinatown tenants and workers. Cantonese and Spanish translations provided. RSVP at https://ccedla.solidarity.tech/affordable-rent-townhall Registration is required so we can make sure there is sufficient seating and language accommodations.

NO MORE LUXURY DEVELOPMENTS-- CHINATOWN NEEDS TRULY AFFORDABLE HOUSING! It's unacceptable to posture that your panel is genuine community engagement, when it's held in the middle of the day where attendees must rsvp online in English. Your meetings make no room for our immigrant, working class elders and families, the way the Buena Vista Lofts make no room for us either. Shame on söm co-space and @sanantoniowinery Tell @cd1losangeles @eunissesh that we DON'T WANT BUENA VISTA We shut down the Riboli family's project before, and we'll do it again. Tenants and allies of Lincoln Heights, Solano Canyon, and Chinatown are united against the Buena Vista Lofts project proposal! ✊️🔥

🚨EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION! Less than 24 hours to stop the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from breaking families apart! 🚨ACT NOW! Take 3 seconds to FLOOD HUD with COMMENTS to stop the Trump Administration from evicting mixed status immigrant families from public housing and Section 8 housing. Make sure you state that - YOU OPPOSE the proposal - YOU DO NOT WANT to tear apart immigrant families - ADD ONE PERSONAL NOTE to emphasize why you care! Housing right organizations coast to coast are calling for 60,000 public comments to stop the implementations, a strategy that worked in 2019 Trump 1.0. 🔗/comment-tool ✊SEND YOUR COMMENTS to oppose the measure and SHARE WIDELY: please include link. #keepfamiliestogether #evicticenotus #floodhud #immigrantpower #housingisahumanright

Chinatown residents Jiaming Luk, who goes by Mr. Luk, and his wife said they’re forgoing haircuts and eating out to make rent. Their neighbor Anh Mac said she and her neighbors only have about $70 dollars left over after paying for rent, utilities and other needs. “ How can I live if my [social security] is even less or about the same as my rent?” Mr. Luk asked in Cantonese at an April 4 rally in Chinatown. “ I can only ask my relatives and family for help, but if I wait for their help, I would be dead by now. They can only do so much to support me.” Several tenants living in the Metro at Chinatown Senior Lofts, a 123-unit building near the Chinatown Metro station for low-income seniors, say they’re going through something similar. For the past few years, tenants have battled rent increases that are nearly double that of rent-controlled buildings in LA, according to residents and tenant organizers. Metro is one of 537 buildings constructed using federal low-income housing tax credits in LA. It’s one of nine such buildings in Chinatown. Landlords who manage these buildings are required to rent a portion of apartments to lower-income tenants who make specific percentages of the local area median income. There is a cap on rent increases and a gross rent limit for each unit, but tenants say that rents remain unaffordable even with these restrictions. This year, Metro tenants were hit with a rent increase of almost 8%. Tenants told LA Public Press that their social security checks, which grew by 2.8% this year, can’t keep pace with these rent increases. To learn more, read the full story by Phoenix Tso (@phoenixtso ) via the link in our bio or at LAPublicPress.org.

@cd1losangeles ordered another sweep on our unhoused neighbors in Chinatown this morning.😡 Most folks affected by the major sweep on February 23rd at the encampment in the alley of Alhambra Ave. had moved across to the area swept this morning to stay close to one another. It has only been about a month and a half, and folks have to go through the trauma of losing their belongings again just after replacing them from the last sweep. The sweep today was extended further than what the notice indicated and caught many residents off guard. Council District offices have total authority over when to order and cancel sweeps. Since Eunisses Hernandez’s team took office, we have seen an increase in sweeps and 41.18 enforcement actions in the district despite councilwoman Hernandez being vocally against encampment sweeps on her 2021 election campaign. We continue to call for no more sweeps! If people can’t afford rent and can’t get into supportive housing, the city shouldn’t be destroying the only shelter people have. Instead of wasting our tax dollars on policing, enforcement, and trashing people’s things, the city should be investing in permanently affordable housing to create a more just housing system for all Angelenos. Please donate any of the following to help replace their belongings that were destroyed! Drop off at @stopthegondola table at the LA River Farmers’ Market at the LA State Historic Park on Thursdays from 3-6pm. - Tents - Tarps - Toilet Paper - Wagon/carrying equipment/backpacks - Heavy duty large trash bags - Clothes (M & L size for men’s and women’s especially) - Undergarments & socks - Cookware (Pots & Pans), Camping stove You can also donate monetarily through Venmo: sesame-012 (CT AID - photo should be a green bird) or at tinyurl.com/cceddonate (link in bio) WE DEMAND NO MORE SWEEPS! SWEEPS & EVICTIONS = DEATHS

Money for Housing and Education Not for Bombs and Deportation Powerful day fueled by fierce solidarity and militant love to our working class immigrant powered Chinatown AND LOS ANGELES. Housed and Unhoused tenants of Metro Senior Loft, Yale Terrace, Bartlett, @hillsidevilla_ Cathay Manor, Blossom Plaza, @jtownaction @lastreetcare @stopthegondola @reclaiminghomes @echoparklatu @uniondela8 @latu_ktown @latenantslhts and @latenants joined forces to demand the second richest city of the nation to stop all wars and RAISE INCOME NOT RENT!   Couldn’t make it? Sign the petition and stay tuned for the Town Hall in May! tinyurl.com/CTHousingPetition26 #RentFreezeNow #EvictIceNotUs #RaiseIncomeNotRent #evictionmoratorium #HousingIsAHumanRight

RSVP NOW! ALL OUT FOR OUR BELOVED WORKING CLASS, IMMIGRANT POWERED CHINATOWN! tinyurl.com/raiseincomenotrent THIS SATURDAY 4/4, 10 am, join us to rage against all rent increases across Chinatown and Los Angeles! Rent has far outpaced stagnant benefits and income. Most Chinatown tenants are one rent increase away from becoming unhoused. This is unacceptable when trillions are spent for wars, ICE and police, while working class communities and disabled seniors are literally starving. Bring your friends and family. Together we demand an immediate rent freeze, stop all evictions, a rent cap below cost of living and a movement towards Abolish Rent! #RentFreezeNow #EvictICENotUs #raiseincomenotrent

Bertha won her eviction case and will remain in her home of 25 years in Echo Park 🏆!! Triumph Management is notorious for harassing tenants, denying rent, filing numerous aggressive evictions, displacing long term tenants from affordable housing programs and retaliating against tenants who organize. The Anti-Triumph Tenant Council is made up of tenants across six buildings managed by Triumph in Echo Park, Historic Filipino town, Chinatown and Westlake all facing harassment, illegal and absurd fines, large rent increases and constant threats of eviction. We demand for “affordable housing” programs to actually be affordable and for an end to the harassment! Are you a tenant with Triumph Management? Call or text (323) 713-0979 to join the LA Tenants Union and the Anti-Triumph Tenant Council! 🚩