After five years at the helm of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Cathy Dang will be transitioning from her role as Executive Director in the fall of 2018. This transition comes during a time of tremendous growth for CAAAV. Under Cathy’s formidable leadership, CAAAV has significantly expanded our staff, membership base, programs and budget, led important[…..]

This month, CTU made a major step in the fight against gentrification in our community! On October 18th, the Land Use Committee of Community Board 3 voted unanimously to co-sponsor our application to rezone the Two Bridges waterfront area near Chinatown. This is an important step forward towards long-term protections for tenants and small businesses[…..]

CAAAV is proud to receive an award to join the Community Land Trust (CLT) Learning Exchange that will provide technical assistance towards forming a Community Land Trust in Chinatown. To ensure low-income Asian immigrant communities have homes, we need to support housing development models that emphasize community control, not unchecked private housing development that prioritize[…..]