“What you have to know about Chinatown is that the vast majority of long-term residents are renters,” she said. “Home ownership is very, very low here, so when you’re talking about renters and property values going up, that’s to their detriment.”
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I see a lot of parallels between Seattle's Chinatown/ID and the examples used here of Chinatowns in San Francisco and New York City. The fight to keep these neighborhoods intact happens everyday throughout the country, and support for anti-displacement work is needed now more than ever.
Full article here: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/03/15/515792846/chinatowns-across-the-country-face-off-with-gentrification