Yes! Pass the Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan!
<p>The Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan proposes a path for future development that increases affordable housing, community amenities, and neighborhood-oriented small business while avoiding the displacement, economic segregation, and loss of character that has followed rampant real estate speculation in other neighborhoods of New York. Gentrification and other processes of displacement are already infiltrating Chinatown and the Lower East Side in the form of developments like One Manhattan Square. The CWG Plan honors New York City’s rich immigrant history and the contributions that waves of immigrants have made and continue to make to New York City’s economy and culture. Community-led rezoning is a strategy for preserving one of the last affordable neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan.</p>
Authors: Citygroup, Chinatown Working Group, Art Against Displacement
Designers: Laura Coombs
Illustrator: Soft-Firm