by Kieran Tran, Healthy Homes Organizer | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Healthy Homes Together, APEN, our members, and working-class immigrant and refugee families across California have been fighting for quality, affordable, and healthy housing for all. APEN’s Healthy Homes advocacy is rooted in our vision of strong, sustainable local...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 12, 2024 | Media, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
The Oaklandside: Since Stop AAPI Hate, some Oakland Chinatown residents are rethinking crime prevention Community members shop for groceries in Oakland Chinatown on June 9, 2024. Credit: Amaya Edwards By Roselyn Romero and Momo Chang It was February 2021, and Oakland...
by Diana Chan | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Chinatown is so important. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Fong and Friends of Lincoln Square Park. For Chinese immigrant families in Oakland like mine, Chinatown is so important. Most seniors in our community don’t speak English, and Chinatown is the only place we can...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2021 | Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
All of us deserve to walk down the street without looking over our shoulders for fear of being attacked – to go to work, drop off our kids at school, get groceries, and gather with friends without fear of being assaulted or worse. Earlier this year, after...
by TEAM APEN | Jun 1, 2021 | Climate Resilience, Los Angeles, Media, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Grist: From pollution to policing, this Asian-American group is expanding environmental justice in the Bay Area Asian Pacific Environmental Network members work at a community event. Courtesy of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network By Adam Mahoney Sandy Saeteurn...
by TEAM APEN | Apr 26, 2021 | Media, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
KQED: Public Safety for Asian Americans Starts with Nurturing Our Communities Visitacion Valley neighbors gather to honor Yik Oi Huang, a grandmother who passed away after being attacked in 2019. They hope to rename their local park after her, and have been working to...
