East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)

For the past two years, EBALDC has been contracting with Oakland Dept of Transportation to engage residents on their vision of a Chinatown Complete Streets Plan. Join EBALDC, along with the City of Oakland DOT, Sticky Rice Club, and Oakland Bloom, for Flow & Flourish: Reimagining Chinatown Streets block party this Saturday, November 16, from 3-7pm at 9th and Webster Streets! This will be a creative and interactive event in Oakland’s Chinatown to test-design a community-driven plan that will create multimodal upgrades to key corridors, promoting more inclusive streets, sidewalks, and spaces, while celebrating Chinatown’s rich culture and history. Through four phases, including conceptual design and grant funding preparation, the plan aims to address transportation equity by transforming some of the area’s highest-risk streets. Be part of this effort to reimagine Oakland Chinatown — join us to celebrate safer, more inclusive streets for all! ??♀????? What: Flow & Flourish: Reimagining Chinatown Streets Block Party Date: Saturday, November 16th Time: 3 – 7pm Place: 9th & 10th Streets between Webster Street and Harrison Streets; Oakland Chinatown Learn more about the Chinatown Complete Streets Plan here: https://lnkd.in/eEUJvhmc #OaklandChinatown #CompleteStreets #CommunitySafety Annie Ledbury, Ener Chiu, Sean Sullivan, KELLY DRUMM, Richard Quach, Vicki Shu, Minming Wu Morri, Janelle Chan, Lindsay Guinan

We enjoyed teaming up with the BART Police Department and our development partners to celebrate North Berkeley BART Station's Trunk or Treat. It was a chance to visit with the neighbors about the TOD project, and gather our team's little ones!

EBALDC is thrilled to celebrate the $25 million award from California State Transportation Agency to support the infrastructure improvements at the North Berkeley BART Transit Oriented Development. It’s been less than two years since the development team was selected, and in that time, we have designed and entitled the 739-unit master plan and secured over $30 million for on-site infrastructure and open space. Thanks to our agency partners at BART and City of Berkeley, and our co-development partners at BRIDGE Housing Corporation, Insight Housing, and AvalonBay Communities, for working to secure this funding.

Congratulations to Keisha Browder on your new appointment as the next CEO of the United Way Bay Area! EBALDC and UWBA have had a long relationship -- since our founding nearly 50 years ago -- and look forward to a continued deepening of our relationship under Keisha's leadership.

In 2020, EBALDC helped found the California Community-Based Development COllective (CBDC) to facilitate peer learning and engage in collective advocacy. Many thanks to our CBDC partner, SV at Home, for this write-up on the important role of place-based community development organizations in addressing the affordable housing crisis, gentrification in historic ethnic neighborhoods, and new patterns of racial segregation, and calling out the need to support CDCs in their vision of an equitable future for all those who seek "safe and affordable housing, economic opportunities, and socially cohesive neighborhoods...CBDC member organizations alone have already made enormous impacts across the state, housing 19,523 residents and serving 138,005 clients annually." ? The Unity Council, Chinatown Community Development Center, Mission Economic Development Agency, TNDC, MAAC HOUSING CORPORATION, Young Community Developers, Little Tokyo Service Center, Canal Alliance, East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO), Coalition for Responsible Community Development, Deland Chan, Rémy De La Peza, Gabriel Frank-McPheter, Capri Roth, Vicki Shu, Janelle Chan

Proud to share that EBALDC Resident Leader, Cathy Eberhardt, will be speaking at the Bay Area premiere of BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness in #Oakland, happening on Today October 21st at 6:30 PM at the Grand Lake Theatre. Join Us, RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g6sEfhXn

We could not have asked for a more beautiful day for 300 partners -- community members and leaders, elected and public officials -- to break ground on our Chinatown TOD Senior Affordable Housing project. This is just the first step to re-stitch Chinatown after major infrastructure projects of the '60s tore a literal hole down the middle, displacing thousands of residents, small businesses, and community institutions.?Thank you to the dozens of community organizations who led and participated in 16 years of community activism to realize this day and to BART Director Robert Raburn who predicts a Chinatown that “will prosper around what will be known as THE Oakland Chinatown BART Station.” Many thanks to all of our speakers – Mayor Sheng Thao, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, Oakland Housing & Community Director Emily Weinstein, Oakland Housing Authority Chief Housing Operations Officer Michelle Hasan (she/her), Supervisor Lena Tam, Enterprise Community Partners Vice President Heather M. Hood, BAHFA Commissioner and Supervisor Nathan Miley, California Strategic Growth Council Executive Director Matt Read, BART Director Lateefah Simon, and Oakland’s own OG superhero, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who came out to celebrate the Chinatown community and join Director’s Raburn call to recognize the significance of this project to the Chinatown community with the eventual BART station renaming. “This project embodies the very essence of what EBALDC stands for -- community and connections, said EBALDC CEO Janelle Chan. “Today’s development is far more than creating much-needed senior affordable homes; it’s about us declaring that our community matters. We’re not asking for a seat at the table…our community made the table.” #OaklandChintatownBART Photo credits Alain McLaughlin and Germán Jiménez

Thank you Acting U.S. HUD Secretary Adrianne Todman for visiting us yesterday at our national award-winning, affordable housing project, Casa Arabella, and the thoughtful conversation on how East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) and The Unity Council, can continue our partnership with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As two Oakland-based, non-profit community development organizations in Oakland, we continue our partnership with Oakland Housing Authority, City of Oakland, BART, Alameda County, California Department of Housing & Community Development, and Operation Dignity, Inc. to innovate and build more affordable housing AND revitalize our local economy. Thank you to Barbara Leslie and Kenneth E. M. at the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce for your inclusive leadership, amplifying our work together at the intersection of economic development with housing. EBALDC has built homes for over 2,300 households and sustains over 100 businesses and nonprofits within our buildings."?#teamoakland (left to right)?Caheri Gutierrez, Blanca Cecilia Plazola, Capri Roth, Aubra Levine, Chris Iglesias, Kenneth E. Maxey II, MPA, MAIPCR, Adrianne Todman, Arabella Martinez, Janelle Chan, Barbara Leslie, Patricia Wells, Ener Chiu, Mercedes Brown, Liz Probst (not shown: Felicia Scruggs, CA. Real Estate Broker, CPM, Vicki Shu, Carolina Yong, CPM, Billy Daniels)

It’s been an honor to work with our 50+ community and project partners to finally start construction on the first phase of our community’s vision for the Lake Merritt BART Station Area Plan; it took a village! ? Join us Thursday, October 17th for our Groundbreaking Celebration! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eNg5rgZS

Join our Director of Real Estate Development, Liz Probst, at the Annual NPH Conference tomorrow! With Michelle Kai, Asha Rao, and Pedro Galvao - they will be celebrating the innovative policies and funding sources around public land, including EBALDC’s projects on City, County, Housing Authority, and BART sites.