Chinatown Justice Project
The Chinatown Justice Project (CJP) organizes Chinatown residents – youth, low-wage workers, and tenants – against community-wide displacement and gentrification in order to preserve Chinatown as a neighborhood for working class Asian immigrants. We work to ensure that residents play a key role in community-led development and that those processes are democratic, equitable, and just. Recognizing the role young people play in immigrant families, CJP runs a year-long youth program to develop the consciousness and skills of Chinese youth through leadership development program and intergenerational organizing campaigns. They are critical leaders in building the Chinatown Tenants Union. The Chinatown Tenants Union (CTU) was founded by CJP in 2005 as a space for residents to come together and provide a unified community voice on issues relating to gentrification and development. The CTU builds the power of low-income tenants by developing their leadership and engaging in strategic organizing campaigns.