馮葉 Stephanie Fung

The Housing Crisis and Anti-Asian Racism

with 何盈欣 Beverly Ho

Our talk tonight is focused on anti-Asian racism because it’s very obvious, especially in its recent heightened and overt form that it has taken, and in light of the recent election of Donald Trump as well as in light of how the housing crisis is occurring.To connect it to Chinatown, where I work with Chinese seniors, the foreign investment myth, just like the model minority myth, may seem like they’re not that harmful, but they both profoundly and very negatively affect Chinese residents. (…)