Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc

“There are two classes of members, one class consisting of voting members ("voting members") and the other class consisting of participating members ("participating members"). (i) the voting members shall initially consist of the initial directors of the corporation. Additional voting members shall be any current resident of boston chinatown, as defined by the borders of the then current chinatown master plan, who supports the purpose and goals of the corporation, is sixteen years of age or older, is current in payment of annual dues, resides in the commonwealth of massachusetts and registered with the corporation to become a member. Voting members of the corporation, in addition to such other powers as may be vested in them by law, shall be the only members of the corporation empowered to vote on matters coming before the members. (ii) the participating members shall consist of any former resident of boston chinatown, as defined by the borders of the then current chinatown master plan, or any stakeholder with particular expertise and involvement in the chinatown neighborhood, who supports the purpose and goals of the corporation, is sixteen years of age or older, is current in payment of annual dues, resides in the commonwealth of massachusetts and registered with the corporation to become a member. Each member is required to pay annual dues when and as established by the initial incorporators of the corporation and as may be amended from time to time by the voting members.”

“Dues paying members elect the board.”

“Form 990 is distributed to board prior to filing. Board members review prior to filing.”

“Determination of compensation for excecutive director and staff include a review and approval by the board using comparability data, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision.”

“Determination of compensation for excecutive director and staff include a review and approval by the board using comparability data, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available upon request. No requests for information was made during the year. Financial statements are filed annully with the massachusetts attorney general's (ag) public charity divison and avaialable for viewing on the ag's website.”

“The chinatown community land trust (chinatown clt) works to stabilize the future of chinatown as a neighborhood for working class families and a regional hub for the chinese community. We work for community control of the land, development without displacement, permanently affordable housing, and shared neighborhood spaces, consistent with the chinatown master plan.”

“Row house preservation chinatown clt has a particular focus on preserving permanently affordable homes by removing some of the neighborhood's small properties from the speculative market. These brick row houses have historically housed some of chinatown's most vulnerable residents, yet many properties were flipped and converted to short-term rental properties over the past decade. Chinatown clt seeks to preserve permanently affordable homes and small business spaces, and to maintain core row house streets as anchors of the working class community for generations to come. Row house investments continues to hold 99-year ground leases for permanent affordability. It has completed sales of seven affordable home ownership units to first time homebuyers and recently stabilized tenants in a four-unit row house.”

“Community building and collective governance clt works with residents, small business owners, and other stakeholders to strengthen the community fabric and its sense of community. An important goal is to reclaim the practice of the community commons, collectively governing and protecting public land, shared spaces, and resources that are important for community life, not their monetary value. Recent activities include organizing residents around a variety of street improvements, for community governance of reggie wong park, and developing a shared community land trust loan fund with boston area partners. Chinatown clt is part of a growing movement for collective control and stewardship of land to stabilize our communities and plays an active role in the greater boston clt network, the homes for all campaign, and other movement building networks. Focuses include peer learning, shared resources, and promotion of policies and practices that limit land speculation, increase community control, and stabilize neighborhoods.”

“Environmental justice chinatown clt partners with the green justice coalition and resilient urban neighborhoods to develop community-controlled energy projects to support resilience, clean energy, economic and environmental justice for chinatown. Projects include electrification of small properties, heat resilience measures, energy efficient installations such as air source heat pumps, solar-and-battery-storage designs, and exploration of community solar. Chinatown clt and the chinese progressive association established chinatown power, inc. As a public benefit corporation to lead the community microgrid. Chinatown clt also plays an important role in promoting environmental justice through popular education, organizing, advocacy, planning, and implementation. This includes work to expand and improve open space and green infrastructure and to mitigate the effects of cumulative pollution impacts, extreme heat, and flooding.”

“Planning for a healthy community chinatown clt led a participatory planning process to produce chinatown master plan 2020 and co-facilitates the ongoing chinatown master plan committee in order to guide implementation steps to achieve the community's vision. Ongoing focuses include stewardship of public land, promotion of a healthy environment, economic stability, and shared public spaces. Chinatown clt recently partnered with other organizations on a chinatown cultural plan and is working with the city of boston on zoning guidelines that support the community's vision. Historic and cultural preservation chinatown clt works to preserve and grow chinatown as a historic and cultural district that preserves and safeguards the living pulse of boston's immigrant history; it centers on the principle that chinatown can only be preserved if its working class chinese residents and small businesses remain. Work includes an immigrant history trail to activate nearly two centuries of historic archives, the chinatown worker statues project, place-keeping through public art and social tourism, and exploration of both historic conservation district and cultural district status.”

“Consultants 0 1,500 995 payroll services 0 1,795 0 historical & cultural 72,573 0 0 real estate development 19,230 0 0 ej/ microgrid 140,450 0 0 total 232,253 3,295 995”