https://chiyitam.com Chiyi Tam Website Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:06:38 +0000 https://chiyitam.com en https://chiyitam.com/Home Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:37:23 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/Home 歡迎光臨: ❶ Teaching ❷ Writing ❸ How To Write Your Planning School Statement&nbsp;❹ About 🐓️Contact Chiyi ︎ https://chiyitam.com/Bio Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:37:24 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/Bio Bio Chiyi Tam 譚奇一 is an urban planner and anti-displacement organizer based in Tkaronto's Chinatown. Chiyi is the Managing Director and co-founder of the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust. Her goal is to return knowledge into community ownership; and support communities working to turn property back into land.&nbsp;She frequently supports groups from all corners of turtle island exploring community ownership and community wealth building as an anti-displacement strategy for racial &amp; economic justice. Full Bio Cont’dIn Chinese tradition, the name Chiyi&nbsp;奇一 follows the Tam&nbsp;譚 clan ancestral poem, indicating her place of belonging in the 91st generation from the Five-Tam clan villages and river system. In this line, she is the third generation to be displaced to trade-colonial Hong Kong‘s Rennie's Mill, and later, today’s settler-colonial Canada. Maternally, she is from generations of mixed Tibetan-Han community rooted on Chongqing’s beautiful Southwestern University campus. In both lines, she comes from land-based philosophers, theologians and architects, which is a tradition she inherits in her approach to understanding the settler property system she works through today. She was the first staff and executive director of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, where she acquired the organization’s first building acquisition, and continues to be a close collaborator. Prior to joining the community land trust movement, she had a decade of experience working in social enterprise start-ups, research, legislation and incubation - most notably the student renegade project UBC Farm, and the Department of International Development at Oxford University. Chiyi has served on the advisory boards of Montreal Chinatown’s JIA Foundation, BC’s Union Cooperative Initiative, and the first elected board of the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts.She leads a public course on community land trusts with the Esturary Institute. She co-developed “Planning and Designing for Community Power” with long time collaborator Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie, a graduate course at the University of Toronto. She has delivered keynote speeches reflecting on the moment we are working in together, for the Canadian Community Economic Development Network and the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts. She has been recognised for her work in urban planning and the community land trust movement as an Early Career Canadian Urban Leader by the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, the Rosemary Brown Racial Justice Award and more recently with the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her work has been featured on the South China Morning Post, CBC, CTV, Global News, Toronto Today, West End Pheonix, the Greenline, and most importantly to her - the now-shuttered MingPao Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Land and Food Systems from the University of British Columbia, and a Masters of Science in Planning from the University of Toronto. Her work as a student was recognized by the&nbsp;Bob Fletcher Endowment;&nbsp;the Walter G. Hardwick Scholarship in Urban Studies; Peter R. Walker Fellowship;&nbsp;Matthew W.F. Hanson Scholarship and&nbsp;Edie Yolles Award. Related links: Toronto Chinatown Land TrustFriends of Chinatown Toronto Planting ImaginationLong Time No SeeJIA Foundation Canadian Network of Community Land TrustsKensington Market Community Land TrustNew Housing AlternativesBalanced Supply of Housing Research ClusterAffordable Housing Challenge ProjectUnion Cooperative Initiative (BC) Community Economies Lab Planners Network: The Organization of Progressive PlanningDepartment of Geography and PlanningDaniels Faculty of ArchitectureSchool of Cities, University of TorontoEvenings and Weekends Consulting 🐓️ Contact Chiyi ︎ https://chiyitam.com/Writing Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:37:24 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/Writing <img width="1876" height="1202" width_o="1876" height_o="1202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61320bb3c11f9d472d7a01b1085be89d5ceab67ff71da156405730e0ae6c00d9/chingmingriver.jpg" data-mid="132638313" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61320bb3c11f9d472d7a01b1085be89d5ceab67ff71da156405730e0ae6c00d9/chingmingriver.jpg" /> 清明上河圖,&nbsp;張擇端 Comparing Notes: Anti-Displacement Organizing from Little Jamaica to Chinatown Written in collaboration with Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie.Toronto’s Little Jamaica and Chinatown residents have been comparing notes. Two racialized neighbourhoods, beloved by our communities for the culturally specific retail and services they are home to, are both rapidly gentrifying. Both neighbourhoods have been heavily shaped by people who were targeted by racist Canadian immigration policies.&nbsp;Although these neighbourhoods are culturally significant to marginalized immigrant communities, neither yet have heritage or development protections. The gentrification pressures these communities face is the result of today’s transit and intensification-oriented planning policies. We highlight the important role of urban planning in producing these processes of displacement, and the unique and important place of culturally significant retail as it relates to affordable housing. Both important features –affordable housing and culturally significant retail—are currently under threat in these racialized neighbourhoods. The lesson, from Little Jamaica to Chinatown, is that the protection of affordable rental housing is importantly intertwined with the preservation and expansion of affordable commercial spaces for small BIPOC-owned businesses. In these immigrant communities, where working class people continue to live and work, retail and housing needs should not be considered in silos. 10 Pages [Link] Antidotes to White Supremacy in Planning In the spring of 2019, I was sitting with a circle of friends, and Dr. Dara Kelly. We were learning about the Coast Salish economy and her work in its resurgence, her imaginations for its future. She said to us, “the first thing capitalism destroys is our imagination.” This big and simple statement set me off on a journey to regain our collective imagination. This essay is a reflection of a part of that journey, towards imagining an anti-colonial future for planning. 10 Pages [This essay is currently under revision.] <img width="1944" height="1296" width_o="1944" height_o="1296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ec79c1492269440c5a4fbc06dbff6676a47978dcf59ea2fa0a46f0df10bfaed/64884238_10161864110775254_5308885246383489024_o.jpg" data-mid="132636442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ec79c1492269440c5a4fbc06dbff6676a47978dcf59ea2fa0a46f0df10bfaed/64884238_10161864110775254_5308885246383489024_o.jpg" /> image by Romila Barryman <img width="1225" height="827" width_o="1225" height_o="827" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e2f9e1be12a08dc3a2b1305d620590da4ba9130856947af3da1d353a9d36536/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-5.07.15-PM.png" data-mid="132636508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e2f9e1be12a08dc3a2b1305d620590da4ba9130856947af3da1d353a9d36536/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-5.07.15-PM.png" />cover art by Chris Carrarie Community Power for Anti-Displacement: An Inclusive Future for Downtown Chinatown Written with Zeina Ahmed, Thomas Kempster, Sanjida Rabbi, and Nick Vo. This report was created in partnership with, and commissioned by, Friends of Chinatown Toronto to research and document the patterns of neighbourhood change, gentrification, and displacement within the Downtown Chinatown community. In recent years, the community has identified an urgent need to address the loss of affordable housing, culturally competent businesses, and similar assets valued by the culturally unique community of Downtown Chinatown. The objective of this project is to gather sentiments about neighbourhood change in Downtown Chinatown and formalize them in a planning rationale that advocates for increased Community Control. Using multiple research methods, with a particular focus on key informant interviews, we identified several key findings that serve this purpose. 47 Pages [Link] Social Enterprise As Building Back Better: A Review of Community Contribution CompaniesAs calls to ‘build back better’ begin to formalize, social enterprise as an alternative economic model has drawn increasing attention. In British Columbia, specific models have yet to be identified by the province and municipalities towards “(Re)imagining Economic Recovery” under the indiscriminate category of social enterprise or community economic development broadly. We know relatively little regarding specific social enterprise models in British Columbia and what their track records are to-date.&nbsp;This report focuses on the Community Contribution Company (CCC) - a legal structure intended for the use of social enterprises introduced to British Columbia in 2013. 22 Pages [Link] <img width="1000" height="1508" width_o="1000" height_o="1508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/880c0ab1014ed30ea658d279f3a691ccbcbc76657ced317b3e6600f48f318cec/4877165975_48f26951d6_h.jpg" data-mid="132636432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/880c0ab1014ed30ea658d279f3a691ccbcbc76657ced317b3e6600f48f318cec/4877165975_48f26951d6_h.jpg" /> image “what we are coming to” Grant E. Hamilton for Judge Magazine <img width="1259" height="916" width_o="1259" height_o="916" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f7d7282c689c30e489453bdb0b19f335e3ecec6fb900e0878217e0ce66e0b13/Screenshot-2020-02-20-at-10.06.54-PM.png" data-mid="132636316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f7d7282c689c30e489453bdb0b19f335e3ecec6fb900e0878217e0ce66e0b13/Screenshot-2020-02-20-at-10.06.54-PM.png" /> image by chiyi tam Social Solidarity Commons: Scaling Digital Mutual Aid Written with Dylan Cohen, Emma Clayton Jones, Niall Harney. Pandemics require diverse public responses to meet the staggering and diverse demand of community need. TheMutual Aid phenomenon describes the broad mainstream development of thousands of hyper-local resource distribution groups created by volunteer who look after their neighbours without relying on third party intervention. The opportunity presented by millions volunteering in their community’s best interests can be reproduced, accelerated, and developed with a tailored and scalable institutional response. 33 pages [Link] https://chiyitam.com/Events Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:52:43 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/Events Upcoming Events 20-22 October ‘23. “CLT Summit”. Canadian Network of CLTs. Toronto. Register here. 4 November ‘23. “Panel Discussion:&nbsp;Canadian Premiere of Best in the World.”&nbsp; Architecture and Design Film Festival Toronto. Tickets here. 23 November ‘23. “Big Fight in Little Chinatown Film Screening and Discussion.” Chinatown, the Best! Long Time No See x Hart House. Tickets here. Past Events 29-30 September ‘23. “CHINATOWN REIMAGINED FORUM II”. Jia Foundation. Montreal. Recording here. 23 September ‘23. “ACO Toronto's Heritage and Housing Symposium”. Architecture Conservatory of Ontario. Ontario Science Centre. 18 September ‘23. “Art of City Building Conference“ Halifax. 29 &amp; 30 August ‘23. “Big Fight in Little Chinatown, presented with the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust”. HotDocs Ted Rogers Cinema. TICKETS. 23 August ‘23. “Chinatown 2050: In Conversation with the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust”. HotDocs Ted Rogers Cinema. TICKETS. 30 May ‘23. HotDocs. “Big Fight in Little Chinatown”. TICKETS. 8 May ‘23. “HOT POT TALKS X MAYWORKS: ft. Rick Sin &amp; Chiyi Tam“. DETAILS. 30 April ‘23. “Planting The Seeds of Imagination - Symposium on Co-Design, Legacy Planning + Lessons in Building Community Power. Myseum Toronto Intersections Festival. Register here - LINK. 17 April ‘23. “Protecting Affordable Housing in Mixed-Use Buildings with Community Ownership | Protéger les logements abordables grâce à la propriété communautaire”. CMHC ECOH Webinar | Webinaire CODEL. LINK. 9 Mar ‘23. Thursday. 1:00-2:00pm EST. “Protecting Tenants and Preserving Housing Affordability: Case studies from community land trusts“. Canadian Housing Renewal Association, Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts. 6 Feb ‘23. Monday. 6:00-8:00pm EST. “Community Wealth as a Anti-Racism Strategy”. Anti-Racism Action Project Learning Series. Regent Park Community Health Centre. Register here.21 Jan ‘23. Saturday. 4:00-7:00pm EST. @The Bakery, 2 Fraser Avenue. “+(plus)2.0: Imagining the future of city-building together through creative mixed-use.“ Panel hosted by DesignTO, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities. 6 Dec ‘22. Tuesday. 7:00-8:30pm EST. “Advancing the Right to Housing in Toronto: Report Launch - Critical Perspectives on the GTA’s Housing Crisis and How To Solve It.” Affordable Housing Challenge Project. School of Cities Toronto. Recording on Youtube. 26 Nov ‘22. Saturday. 2:00pm EST. “The Battle for Chinatowns Across Canada”. Lin Lecture 2022. Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. Online. Recording on Youtube. 25 Nov ‘22. Friday. 12:45pm EST. “Land Access &amp; Food Sovereignty Panel”. Peoples Social Impact Conference 2022.&nbsp;SETSI. 24 Nov ‘22. Thursday. 12:00pm EST. “Reality Check: How much govenment supported affordable housing is being built?”. Urban Land Institute. Recording on Youtube. 4 Nov ‘22. Saturday. 6:30-8:30pm EST. “Toronto CLT Movement: Housing Justice, Racial Equity and Economic Democracy.” 201 Cowan Avenue, Toronto. Planners Network. Recording on Youtube. 2 Nov ‘22. Wednesday. 11:15am-12:15pm “Harnessing nonprofits’ economic power to build community wealth.” Nonprofit Driven. The Ontario Nonprofit Network Annual Conference 2022. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. 19 Oct ‘22.&nbsp; Wednesday. 12:00-1:00pm EST. JEDI Roundtable - Co-operation in the World of Tomorrow. Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada. Online panel. Sep ‘22.&nbsp;“An introduction to land trusts in Toronto.” Panel hosted by Parkdale Free School at Danu Social House. Jun ‘22. C4C Housing Systems Workshop Series Non Market Housing Solutions - CLTs, Co-ops, &amp; CHCs [Panel]. Windsor Law Centre for Cities, Canadian Urban Institute, Smart Prosperity Institute. Recording here. May ’22.&nbsp;Civic Innovation: Building the Enabling Infrastructure for New Ways of Working Together [Presentation and Panel]. Toronto Public Library, Innovation Council. May ’22.&nbsp;Buy Your Neighbourhood with Kensington Market's Community Land Trust [Walking Tour]. Jane’s Walks Toronto / Kensington Market Community Land Trust. Mar ‘22.&nbsp;Women in Cooperatives [Panel]. Social Economy Through Social Inclusion. Jan ‘22.&nbsp;The Future of Community Finance in Canada [Panel]. Social Economy Through Social Inclusion. Dec ‘21. 54 Kensington Market, Neighbourhood Organizing and Community Land Trust. [Panel]. Affordable Housing Challenge Project/Kensington Market Community Land Trust. || Recording via Youtube. Dec ‘21. Employee Ownership in Canada [Panel]. Social Economy Through Social Inclusion Nov ‘21. National Housing Day -&nbsp;Tools for Social Change in Housing [Panel]. Humber College.&nbsp; Oct ‘21. Activating Solidarity Economies for Climate Justice&nbsp;[Panel]. UBC CCEL x Climate Hub. Oct ‘21. Pathways to Community Ownership. Black Urbanism Toronto. || Recording via Facebook Jun ‘21.&nbsp;HOT POT TALKS! ft. Chiyi Tam on Changing the Flavour of Labour [Video]. Love Intersections. || Recording via Youtube. May ‘21. Chinatown: Future Heritage(s) of Toronto’s Chinatowns (Symposium) [Presentation and Panel]. Intersections 2021. Myseum Toronto. || Recording via Youtube. Mar ‘21.&nbsp;Sustainability Careers for a Just Recovery [Panel]. Embark Sustainability Society/Kwantlen Student Association/UBC Climate Hub/UBC Sustainability Ambassadors/CityStudio Vancouver. Feb ‘21. The Future We Want And Need&nbsp;[Presentation and Panel]. Urban Land Institute. Feb ‘21. A Community Land Trust in Chinatown? [Presentation].&nbsp;Friends of Chinatown Toronto. ||&nbsp;Recording via Youtube. Feb ‘21. Equity in Community Development [Workshop]. United Way Greater Vancouver. Feb ‘21. Legalizing Social Enterprise [Presentation].&nbsp;Strategic Initiatives Unit, City of Toronto. Nov ‘21. Mutual Aid &amp; Community Care [Workshop].&nbsp;Apathy is Boring, RISE Program Vancouver. Aug ‘20.&nbsp;Episode 3 - No more Bad Boyfriends: Dumping the liberal development agenda w/ Chiyi Tam [Podcast]. The Common Denominator Podcast. Jun ‘20.&nbsp;Planning and the Economics of NonProfits [Podcast]. Peak Boredom Podcast. Mar ‘20.&nbsp;Self-Care for Community Organizing [Workshop]. Apathy is Boring, RISE Toronto.&nbsp; Feb ‘20.&nbsp;Community Organizing 101 [Panel]. Apathy is Boring. RISE Program Toronto. Are you here because you are working on the same topics that I am? Hopefully there are clues here to spark your exploration even further! Looking for an event that you don’t see on the list? It might be a closed-session or invite only. I am only listing public events here :) Some recordings or prepared remarks I’ve delivered at past events are available in the links. I’m working on editing them for readability. Get in touch if you’d like a copy. Subscribe here if you’d like email notifications about future public events. https://chiyitam.com/CLTs Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:55:15 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/CLTs <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98a878196004d27a647d2b742c86441eb13b5a6154f46371aec99849c0d34241/COMMUNITY-POWER---CARE.png" data-mid="132629907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98a878196004d27a647d2b742c86441eb13b5a6154f46371aec99849c0d34241/COMMUNITY-POWER---CARE.png" />“building community power must be rooted in collective care diagram”. chiyi tam for chinatown clt report. dec 2021 [image description: a pastel infographic showing four horizontal layers, the top layer reads: ‘community power and control of chinatown’ on a sky blue background with a street of neighbourhood buildings shown at elevation. the second layer reads ‘leasing land for community benefit’. the third layer reads ‘community ownership and land trusts’. the bottom layer reads ‘community organizing and collective care’. each layer has arrows pointing up and down indicating the interconnectedness of each layer to each other.] Page Coming Soon https://chiyitam.com/Requests Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:06:38 +0000 Chiyi Tam Website https://chiyitam.com/Requests ...so that I can read them. Plz and thx. Urban Planning Specific precedent and legal barriers in the transfer of properties to Indigenous ownership.What specific proportions of household income levels produce the alleged benefits of mixed-income neighbourhoods? An urbanist’s commentary of the musicals ‘Rent’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘In The Heights’ depiction of gentrification and New York and its relevance to the current state of real estate speculation.What is the importance, if any, of the 《清明上河图》 on modern urbanism? CoopsWhat evidence do we have of individual or household income/wealth impacts due to participation in a cooperative and specifically in a worker cooperative? (Currently not enough data?)Mapping DAOs to Worker Coopeeratives, a simplified comparasion. Toronto’s ChinatownThat time that the East Spadina Steering Committee election was determined by overt mob tactics and threats?How did neighbourhood mortgages work exactly in Toronto’s Chinatown associations pre and post Chinese Exclusion Act?A history of the resistence to Dragon City Mall’s construction.Archival images of the Chinatown gardens before its redevelopment into Chinatown Centre. Or if commentary / studies already exist in relation to these questions, I would so appreciate it if you could&nbsp;share your sources with me so that we can nerd together. Found answers or future attempts at writing will be linked here as well. Subscribe here with the subject “reading material” if you’d like future updates about changes to this page. Idea for this page comes from Logan