Job posting: Chinese Community Organizer and Administrator The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is hiring a bilingual/multilingual Chinese community organizer and administrator to work with Chinatown Concern Group (CCG) members to build towards a Chinatown that centers on its low-income working-class community. This includes building the leadership of working-class community members in the fight for […]
2月4日，星期六 Saturday February 4 早上10:30 /// 10:30 AM 大溫哥華中華文化中心的大堂 Chinese Cultural Centre Auditorium 片打東街50號 /// 50 E. Pender St 請您回復 RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/852057418270710/ （英文網頁） 如您所知，溫市市府正在更新“唐人街經濟振興行動計劃”和修改華埠發展政策。As you know, the City of Vancouver is updating the Chinatown Economic Revitalization Action Plan (CRAP) and revising Chinatown’s Development Policies. 方案包括放鬆高度限制（在緬街最高達到150尺，約14層），200尺闊的大廈正面寬度，以及消除公開諮詢（包括開放日和公聽會），容許更多市場發展侵入華埠。 按照經常所發生的，市府沒有通知很多在華埠、士達孔拿和東端的大廈和居民。Proposed changes include height restrictions being laxed (with a maximum of 150′ or […]
The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is hiring a bilingual Chinese community organizer to work with Chinatown Concern Group (CCG) members to build towards a Chinatown that centres on its low-income working-class community. This includes building the leadership of working-class community members in the fight for their neighbourhood, against gentrification and for affordable housing. This […]
CCAP has learned about a new threat to the housing for Downtown Eastside residents. The May Wah Hotel on East Pender Street, owned by the Shon Yee Benevolent Association, is now up for sale, leaving the future of the 120 units of low-income housing, and residents who live there, up in the air. The building […]
行動：向喜士定東街288號發展項目說不及一起要求100%真正低收入社會房屋 ACTION: Say “No!” to the 288 E. Hastings development application and rally for 100% social housing 星期一, 1月25號，下午1:00 華埠廣場 (奇化街180號) Monday, January 25, 2016 — 1pm Chinatown Plaza’s food court (180 Keefer St.) 卑詩省房屋局及業主發展商Wall Financial Corporation想興建一座十二層高（120尺）的大廈在喜士定東街及歌雅街的交界。為了這計劃，他們已經驅走七個為低收入人士及華人服務的商業租客。 Evicting seven retail serving the low-income and Chinese community, BC Housing and landlord-developer Wall Financial Corporation want to […]
Remember November 12th, if you’re concerned about more expensive rental apartment towers coming to the Downtown Eastside (DTES). That’s the day of an open house for a new development proposal at 288 E. Hastings, on the west side of Gore Avenue and just across from the First United Church and shelter. The new local area […]
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, January 15, 2015 – The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) has started a petition campaign, calling on the City of Vancouver to immediately place a moratorium on all new market development projects in Chinatown until there is comprehensive community consultation and clear policies to protect the future of Vancouver’s Chinatown. […]
Unite4Chinatown 團結為唐人街 is a campaign organized by CCAP’s Chinatown Planning Group, in response to how gentrification is transforming Chinatown and threatening its future. The Group has initiated a petition campaign calling for an immediate moratorium on all market development projects in Chinatown until there is comprehensive community consultation and clear policies to protect the future of Vancouver’s […]
Although Chinatown is officially part of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), it is generally understood to be a separate community. It reflects the barriers between the English-speaking members and the Chinese-speaking members of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) low-income community, the most significant of which is language. Without the ability to communicate verbally with each other, there […]