Several organizations in Chinatown are fighting what they see as the destruction of their neighborhood.
Li Hua is a secretary of the Chinese Staff Workers Association. She says her group collected thousands of signatures in an effort to stop plans for new high price developments.
We have been protesting against it in all venues possible. At public hearings, with the administrations planning department, to the city council. We had people participating at every step, not just a few but hundreds. But Bloomberg charged on, they just do not care.
New York recently elected a new mayor. Some are hoping for a change in housing policy. Mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to take action to increase reasonably priced housing in the city.
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Africas Big Cities Draw Young Up-and-Comers
From New York to London, Paris to Lagos, the list of international megacities is growing. Recently, mayors from many of the worlds big cities met in Johannesburg, South Africa. These officials gathered to discuss some of the issues facing large cities.
A giant poster of MTN, one of the operators of GSM digital mobile phones, adorns a building in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria.
Africa is home to two cities with populations of more than 10 million people. Those cities are Cairo, the Egyptian capital, and Lagos in Nigeria.
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