On Dec. 12, the anniversary of the sudden death of Ed Lee, former mayor of San Francisco, his longtime wish to offer 17 low-income Chinese seniors long-term housing was fulfilled, reports Sing Tao Daily. The city has provided funding to the Chinatown Community Development Center via a program that Lee launched to help the nonprofit organization purchase the building where the tenants live and make their units permanently affordable. The tenants moved into the building after they were evicted in the 1980s with the help of Lee, who was then a lawyer. Their 25-year lease was expiring. Link to original story →

Seventy-six immigrant women graduated from the first course on child care organized by East Los Angeles College and the Mexican consulate, La Opinión reports. The five-week course, totaling 100 hours, was taken by immigrant women of 11 nationalities, some of them U.S. citizens. “They not only taught us to take care of children, but also to prepare them to receive an education,” said graduate María Ornelas, from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood, who was slated to start working as a teaching assistant Monday. Link to original story →

Latinos turned out in unprecedented numbers to vote in the most recent elections in North Carolina, Qué Pasa Raleigh/Durham reports. On Nov. 6 Hispanic residents numbering 12,153 (37 percent of registered Latinos) voted in Mecklenburg County, the state’s most populous, compared to 1,229 (4 percent) who participated in the May primaries that ousted former County Sheriff Irwin Carmichael, whose deportation program expelled thousands of Latinos. Only 4,253 Latinos voted in the 2014 midterm elections; 2,370 in 2010, and 894 in 2006. “If we repeat those numbers in 2019, we will have power in Charlotte and Mecklenburg,” said German DeCastro, co-founder of the Hispanic Voter Coalition, referring to the next local elections. Link to original story →