Boston Chinatown Is both a residential, working class neighborhood and the social, cultural, political, and economic center of the broader Chinese community of New England.

Chinatown’s future is threatened by overdevelopment and gentrification, with over 30 projects at various stages of development in the immediate locale. But in the struggle to preserve and expand Chinatown, the community is divided in its interests, with the business sector dominating the community agenda.

The goal of the Neighborhood Organizing Project is to strengthen the voice of ordinary Chinatown residents in order to unite and lead the broader community in determining Chinatown’s future.

We work to:

° unite residents and ordinary community members around a vision for Chinatown’s future

° build residents’ grassroots organizing capacity and political mechanisms to change the community’s balance of power

° develop new community leadership which stands for the interests of the majority

° organize for greater community control of development and for Chinatown’s growth

CPA also collaborates with the Asian American Resource Workshop and the Harry H. Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund to sponsor the Campaign to Protect Chinatown, a grassroots environmental and urban development project. CPA is participating in a community-wide effort to revise the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Chinatown Community Plan of 1990.