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  • The Chinatown Community Land Trust: A Tool to Sustain Community

    By Michael Liu

    Spet. 22, 2016, — Community Land Trusts have spread across the U.S. to sustain the type of land and buildings that most of its residents need.

    As the wealthy move into particular areas and drive up prices for land and housing, longtime residents often get pushed out of their neighborhoods. With the influx of luxury housing into Chinatown since 2000, longtime row house owners with limited resources for needed repairs are selling to new investors for top dollar, and low-income tenants are evicted in favor of higher-paying renters. Today’s prices—more than a million dollars for a brick row house in disrepair—are driven by the wild rise and fall of  the market more than the actual condition of the building.
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    Board members of CCLT at a meeting of Chinatown Residents Association earlier this year. (photo by Xinming Li, bostonese.com)
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  • Art Project Home Town Counteracts Extensive Urban Developments in Boston Chinatown

    HOME TOWN: RE-PRESENTING BOSTON’S CHINATOWN AS PLACE OF PEOPLE – THEN AND NOW
    Sept. 10 – Oct. 2, 2016
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  • BCNC and CPA Celebrate ESL Customer Service Training Graduates

    BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2016– The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center and the Chinese Progressive Association celebrated the graduation of its second class of Pre-Vocational Skills with ESOL for Retail Employment training program.  Eight students graduated, with five having already found work in the customer service industry.
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  • Chong Yang Festival Offering Tables at Mt. Hope Cemetery Chinese Memorial

    Boston, Sept. 1, 2016, — The Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) and Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England (CCBA) have gained cooperation from the City of Boston to have offering tables available for Chong Yang Festival this Fall.
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  • Authors of Dragon’s Teeth to Give Talk at Sing Tao Boston Office

    Boston, August 22, 2016, — Dragon’s Teeth, Arthur Wong’s Journey from Taishan to Normandy was recently released by Boston Bilngual Media and Publishing Inc. Authors of the book David Li and Changhong Zhang are invited to give a talk on this book in at 7:00 PM on August 23, 2016 at Sing Tao Daily’s Boston office (130 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 021111). They will share their experiences of writing this bio over the past two years.
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  • One Chinatown Arts Center to Open in 2017

    BOSTON, August 15, 2016 – Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) has received a grant of $250,000 to develop the One Chinatown Arts Center from Liberty Mutual Foundation. The Center is located at 66 Hudson Street and is part of the One Greenway complex.
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    (L to R) Dina Chu, BCNC Board of Directors; Selina Chow, BCNC Board President; Vincent Yee, Co‐Chair of Liberty Mutual Employee Resource Group, “Leading & Empowering Asian American Professionals” LEAAP, and LM Manager of Application Portfolio & Software Development; Giles Li, BCNC Executive Director; Melissa MacDonnell, President of the Liberty Mutual Foundation; Klare Shaw, National Director of Programs, Liberty Mutual Foundation and Eugene Mahr, BCNC Board Vice‐President. (Photo by Alex Gagne)
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  • Gov. Baker Announces Affordable Housing Development Awards in Chinatown

    Awards represent significant investment in affordable housing and will create or preserve 1,420 housing units across the Commonwealth

    Boston, August 15, 2016, – Today the Baker-Polito Administration announced awards to fund the development, renovation and preservation of affordable rental housing across the Commonwealth. This award round builds on the Administration’s commitment to expanding affordable housing options for Massachusetts families.
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    Gov. Baker and community leaders at the event.
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  • Boston Police Log for Chinatown July 8 to 20

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    MVA Pedestrian

    07/20/2016 9:56 AM. The officer while on patrol on Hudson street observed an injurd male sitting on the curb. upon further investigation the officer discovered the victim had been struck by a motor vehicle that had left the scene. the operator of m/v returned to the scene. the victim walked to hospital. the incident to be further investigated.
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  • BCNC and CPA Graduate First Retail Skills Training Class of the Year

    Boston, July 5, 2016, — The Retail Skills Training graduated its first class of five students today. The class was provided by the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) and the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). The program is supported by the Neighborhoods Jobs Trust of the City of Boston.
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  • CHSNE Holds Public Presentation of chinatownatlas.org

    Boston, June 23, 2016, — Chinese History Society of New England (CHSNE) celebrated the online launch of MIT Professor Emeritus Tunney Lee’s Boston Chinatown Atlas recently at Tufts Medical Center in Chinatown. According to Susan Chinsen, Managing Director of CHSNE, the launch of chinatownatlas.org has received $9,120 in donations as of today.
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