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Episode Description In this episode, we discuss affordable housing in Chinatown, Los Angeles. We’re joined by special guest Sissy Trinh, Founder and Executive Director of the Southeast Asian [...]

“Am I a gentrifier?” I get asked this a lot. It’s a question laced with fear, guilt, anxiety, and maybe a bit of defensiveness.  It was also at the heart of a conversation I had recently [...]

SEACA started our planning journey over a decade ago… the City had released a new plan for Chinatown, Lincoln Heights, and Cypress Park called the Cornfield Arroyo-Seco Specific Plan or [...]

The Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA) has been selected as a 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year by Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo.  For almost 20 years SEACA has served youth and [...]

For the past 2 years Mrs. Pham and her family have been fighting eviction from their home in Chinatown.  Mrs. Pham is 71 years old, and has lived with her daughter and 2 grandchildren in a [...]

To learn more, check out this LA Times article by Ada Tseng

With the onset of the pandemic, we were ordered to stay home & everything has drastically changed how we do things at SEACA. Because we are living in unprecedented times, no one told us how [...]

Lower-income communities notoriously lack greenspace due to a history of disinvestment. But the addition of greenspace can pave way for increased rent and displacement. Here’s a few [...]

April signifies spring and welcoming not just the superbloom but also the voices of residents, workers, business owners, and stakeholders of Chinatown. This month our Youth Organizers are able to [...]

This was me and my brother soon after we arrived in the US as refugees and I’m probably only a little bit older than the little girl at the border whose photo went viral last week. Leaving [...]