LA Chinatown Community Land Trust
We preserve and manage affordable housing in the LA Chinatown community to develop a long-term solution for preventing displacement and gentrification in our community that is increasingly becoming more unaffordable for our low-income, long-term, immigrant, and senior residents.
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LIVE ·2025 Grants ChallengeRooted Resilience: Community Ownership in Chinatown
This grant will help acquire 729 Yale, protecting monolingual, working-class families from eviction and placing the property under permanent community control. Grounded in solidarity economy values, LA Chinatown CLT advances a people-powered solution to displacement, where residents lead efforts to preserve culture, steward land, and shape the neighborhood’s future. This work reflects a broader vision of self-determination and collective ownership, ensuring those most impacted remain rooted in Chinatown, feel a sense of belonging, and thrive.
- LIVE ·2023 Grants Challenge
Empowering LA Chinatown: Building a Path to Community Ownership and Affordable Housing
Chinatown residents are facing an increase in rent, evictions, landlord harassment and negligence and are being forced out of homes being sold to corporations. This project lays the foundation to eventually acquire buildings and provide tenants with the opportunity for ownership through the development of an organizational and development roadmap.would consist of community outreach and capacity-building, and a real estate strategy.