Re Condos: Vancouver Chinatown

re condos: By Linda Givetash The Canadian Press Sat., Aug. 20, 2016 VANCOUVER—The transformation of Vancouver Chinatown, fuelled by a changing population, crisis of affordability and ripe potential for new development, has left some locals calling it either a dying neighbourhood or one under threat of gentrification, according to Toronto Star. As the city begins to review the impact of its economic revitalization strategy for the neighbourhood, which ended last year, community members are at odds whether Chinatown direction is what they want. Vancouver Chinatown grapples with growing pains of affordability and development. With all the developments that are happening in the area, they're condos for the most part and they're not being catered to the residents that live there right now, said Yuly Chan, a member of the Chinatown Action Group. Article Continued Below While the area has grown with waves of immigration and development over the decades, it remains one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Vancouver. Just because people are poor, or are income assistance, it doesn't mean they can be pushed out of their own Chinatown is one of the oldest in the country, established in the late 1880s when early Chinese immigrants, many of them railway workers, settled in the area near what is now the downtown core. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.