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Chinatown Community for Equitable Development builds grassroots power with low-income and immigrant communities through organizing, education and mutual help

Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, founded in March 2012 in the wake of the pending development of Wal-Mart, is an organization of community activists, residents, business owners, workers, and youth in Los Angeles Chinatown.

華埠公平發展會
El Barrio Chino para un Desarrollo Justo
Phát Triển Công Bằng cho Cộng Đồng Chinatown

08/17/2026

Interested in becoming a Volunteer Organizer with CCED? Learn about our different committees and ways to get involved.

Join us TOMORROW, Tuesday 8/18 at 6:30pm for our next monthly Volunteer Orientation!

Fill out form at ccedla.solidarity.tech/volunteer (link in bio) AND email [email protected] afterwards to receive the Zoom link!

07/30/2026

We’ll be tabling at LA River Farmers’ Market at LA State Historic Park at the LA State Historic Park every first Thursday of the month, starting next Thursday, 8/6 from 3-7pm! 🌳🥕🥬🍉

Please stop by and drop off donations for our unhoused neighbors. Come talk to us to get more involved with our mutual aid work and fight against displacement.

Don’t miss out next week in celebrating National Farmers’ Market Week. Partake in all the delicious activities and tastings. Visit Food Access LA for more info.

Find Stop The Gondola every Thursday at the Farmers’ Market. They will continue to collect donations for us when we’re not there! Check in for updates and pick up cool swags!

07/24/2026

DW Market is looking to sell after serving the community over 30 years 😢💔

They are located on Broadway and is one of LA Chinatown’s few remaining small grocery stores. They offer a variety of fresh, local produce, including fruits, veggies, and Asian snacks, making them a significant source of culturally relevant, accessible, and healthy food for Chinatown residents.

In 2019, LA-based developer Tom Gilmore evicted Ai Hoa, LA Chinatown’s last full-service grocery store, displacing a major cornerstone of the community, one that provided affordable and accessible food to Chinatown’s largely low-income, poor and working class tenants. Yue Wa Market, right next door, also just closed their business this past year. Smaller grocery stores and other shops such as DW Market continue to fill the gaps in food accessibility for the Chinatown community at-large.

Just like housing, food is a human right. Chinatown deserves an economy that sustains our communities and leaves no one behind. If you come to LA Chinatown, we encourage you to buy locally and learn about how important small businesses like DW Market are to Chinatown community members.

📞If interested in taking on new ownership of DW Market please call 213-680-9230

06/19/2026

On June 6, the Bartlett Hill Tenant Association held a press conference calling out Linc Housing for breaking their promise of keeping rent increases under 2%.

After the event, LINC responded with the same old excuses. They won’t budge on the rent hikes, and in the meantime, tenants have also been left living in poor living conditions, including water and sewer pipe leakages.

The landlord’s top executives make $500,000 a year and in 2024, they raked in an unrestricted surplus of over $30 million dollars while elderly tenants with fixed income spent most of their social security on rent.

We are all upset about the lack of urgency and empathy in addressing these issues. LINC calls itself a nonprofit that cares about the community, yet their actions show otherwise.

This past weekend, three LINC managers showed up uninvited to a tenant meeting, disrupting it and violating tenants’ right to organize. LINC wants to disguise itself as a trusted community partner when in reality, they are putting profit over people. They cannot be trusted.

Thank you to the community members for joining the press conference and supporting, including tenants from Hillside Villa Tenants Association & Metro Senior Lofts.

📣Help us expose LINC. Tag or share with your favorite press/media outlet and their community partners.

06/05/2026

📢TOMORROW, the tenants at Bartlett Hill Manor will be holding a press conference in bringing out awareness about their unacceptable living conditions and rent increases! Please come to show support for these tenants fighting for fair, livable housing conditions!

Bartlett Hill Manor is a LIHTC tax credit building, managed by LINC Housing, a large non-profit affordable housing developer. In 2018, the Bartlett Hill Tenants Association formed and united to fight against extreme health hazards and unsafe conditions during a rehab construction and renovation project that displaced dozens of residents.

Tenants received rent increase notices of 10% in 2024, 7% in 2025 and 5% this year. LINC had committed to not raising rents more than 2% a year but recent rent increases have reneged on that agreement 😒

Tenants are organizing to make sure that LINC is held accountable for their promises.✊🏽

You can also help by tagging your favorite press and media outlet 📹🗞️✍️

06/02/2026

At our recent Raise Income Not Rent Town Hall, , , and addressed a room filled to 150–person capacity full of Chinatown residents. This was a powerful town hall, where tenants were able to share their visions and demands for just housing.

Tenant leaders asked questions about how these electeds would concretely implement long-term rent caps to limit legal 8-10% rent increases, institute an immediate rent freeze and eviction moratorium, expand rent relief coverage,and what structures they would set up to be held accountable.

Rae Huang talked about creating a tenant protection task force, and working to repeal Costa Hawkins, the statewide law that prevents cities and counties from passing new rent control laws. She also talked about the damaging impacts of mega events like the World Cup and the Olympics, that force the city into agreements with federal law enforcement and make Angelenos – especially immigrant communities – less safe.

Kenneth Mejia talked about continuing to use the “bully pulpit” of the controller’s office to hold city agencies and departments accountable. Their most recent report identified the landlords with the most housing violations in the city – with Hillside Villa’s Tom Botz at the top of the list.

Aida Ashouri said she would use the city attorney’s office to go after abusive landlords, and illegal AirBnBs that drive up rents. Many of the laws designed to protect tenants from abuse and price gouging are just not enforced.

also showed up to listen to the community and talk about her work to repeal Costa Hawkins in the State Assembly.

The work of holding politicians accountable does not end with an election. We will continue to demand all elected officials that they are here to serve the people and follow through on their duty to RAISE INCOME NOT RENT!

06/01/2026

On May 27, Yale Terrace Tenant Union from Chinatown traveled to Koreatown to deliver a letter of demands to their landlord, Kheir Clinic, a nonprofit health care provider. The letter highlighted years of unlawful rent increase, miscellaneous additional fees, surveillance, and harassment issues at their homes. They successfully pressured two Kheir managers to listen to their demands, and have given Kheir a week to respond.

Yale Terrace Apartments is only one of dozens of affordable housing buildings owned by Kheir Clinic throughout California, and managed by Triumph Residential Services, Inc. Yale Terrace is one of several Triumph buildings where tenants are organized under the Triumph Tenant Council with .

We demand that Kheir Clinic and Triumph stop management abuses in all their buildings!

Help us apply pressure to Kheir admin to respond to us by calling 📞(213) 427-4000 or emailing 📧 [email protected]

1️⃣click email at tinyurl.com/Pressure-KheirClinic (link in bio)

Thank you to and tenants at Corondolet, Metro Senior Lofts, and , for joining us! ✊🏽❤️‍🔥

05/29/2026

Please support Chinatown street vendors affected by the sweep on May 21st! 🚐🍍🥭🥤

2 street vendors had their RV homes towed. One was told he would be in temporary housing for 3 months, but where will he go afterwards now that his home has been taken by the city, and damaged?

Street vendors have especially been negatively affected this past year with the ICE raids, and can’t afford this extra expense for repair. Getting back on their feet would also be challenging without their vehicle.

Please support by donating to sesame-012 on Venmo (CT AID - photo should be a green bird) or at tinyurl.com/cceddonate (link in bio)

05/24/2026

Skateboard D speaks on his experience with the Inside Safe operation on May 21st which destroyed his home in Chinatown and threw away all of his belongings while he was away. All he is asking for is compensation for his losses.

The mayor’s office called the Inside Safe operation a success. They claim folks “voluntarily” entered housing, though we have heard otherwise from people who were just swept. Despite saying people had a choice, it seems and ’s office intend to continue sweeping people who were away during the sweep or choose to move back.

💪More than donations, we need people to advocate and organize against all sweeps, all evictions, and all displacement. Let your representative know how you feel about their cruel actions taken against the most vulnerable people in our neighborhoods

Council District 1 Representatives:
📧 Michelle Tonn at [email protected]
📧 Katie Chan at [email protected]

Mayor’s Office Area Representative:
📧 Susana Cervantes at [email protected].

📝Sign up to their upcoming “Post Inside Safe Community Meeting - N Main St & Alpine St (Chinatown)”in the coming weeks to raise your concerns and prevent more harm and destruction in the community. https://links.impactive.io/t/mb97ca7p

There’s no difference between a cleanup and a sweep. Sweeps kill. Sweep are happening because Bass’s getting ready for the World Cup. 7 unhoused people die a day in LA. Stop spending $8 million a day on the LAPD and repeal 41.18 🖕Bass

04/20/2026

🚨EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION

🚨ACT NOW! Take 3 seconds to flood the Comments to stop the Trump Administration from evicting mixed status immigrant families from public housing and Section 8 housing.

⏱️Less than 24 hours left to stop this harmful policy

🔗www.allianceforhousingjustice.org/comment-tool

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