Sign the petition: Stop the displacement of Chinatown residents and small businesses! Save Los Angeles Chinatown!
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Gil Cedillo, L.A. City Council, City of Los Angeles Department of City Planningla chinatown
We are uniting as concerned residents, community members and supporters to call on the City of Los Angeles to issue a moratorium on all new developments and unfair rent hikes until a Specific Plan for an affordable and sustainable Chinatown in Los Angeles is established.
Sign the petition: Stop the displacement of Chinatown residents and small businesses! Save Los Angeles Chinatown!
Chinatown residents need more affordable housing, community benefits, green spaces, strong small businesses, reduced air pollution and traffic, and preservation and protection of Chinatown’s unique culture and history. Instead, these new developments are causing rents in Chinatown to skyrocket -- some tenants have received rent increases of over 50% -- and displacing residents and businesses, and drastically increasing air pollution and vehicular traffic.
This displacement fits into a long history of anti-Chinese policies in Los Angeles: Historic Chinatown being displaced to build Union Station, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Geary Act of 1892, and the murders during the Chinese Massacre of 1871. Displacing longtime residents and businesses with luxury developments is one more act of aggression against L.A.’s Chinese American population.
We refuse to support these inhumane, discriminatory policies. We demand that a Specific Plan be developed in partnership with and approved by the community. It must not only increase affordable housing, but also provide better tenant protections against evictions, harassment and retaliation. We further demand a moratorium on all new developments and unfair rent increases in order to stop the ongoing displacement of Chinatown’s residents and ethnic minority-owned small businesses.
Sign the petition: Stop the displacement of Chinatown residents and small businesses! Save Los Angeles Chinatown!
The Specific Plan must provide immediate and long-term strategies and solutions to preserve, protect and strengthen Chinatown’s distinctive and unique history and cultural character, resources, and “village” environment. Together we can improve and maintain an affordable and sustainable Chinatown.
The following are the main sites where massive expensive new developments are being proposed:
- Elysian Park Lofts, 1030-1380 North Broadway & 1251 North Spring St. (S&R Partners)
- College Station, 924 North Spring Street (Atlas Capital Group)
- Harmony, 942 North Broadway (Canadian Townline and Forme Development)
- Studio Gang-Designed Tower at 643 N. Spring Street (French developer Compagnie de Phalsbourg)
Participating Organizations:
Chinatown Sustainability Dialogue Group (CSDG)
Daily Kos
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To:
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Gil Cedillo, L.A. City Council, City of Los Angeles Department of City Planningla chinatown
From:
[Your Name]
As public officials and government agencies of the City of Los Angeles, you have the duty, obligation and responsibility to serve and protect the entire Chinatown community and all of its members. Pass an immediate moratorium on all new developments and unfair rent increases in Chinatown until a Specific Plan for an affordable and sustainable Chinatown is established pursuant to the community’s participation and approval. Save and protect Los Angeles Chinatown!