Photo Stories: • Covid-19 - Seattle's C-ID: Ducey-Covid-Chinatown-2020-03

Volunteer Carmen Hom, from the InterIm Community Development Association, delivers groceries to elderly and low-income residents in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle, Washington on May 28, 2020. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, non-profits in the area banded together to prepare and deliver hot meals and groceries to people afraid to go out because of racial profiling and fear of catching Covid-19. Says Vincent Kwan, the program manager for InterIm, ”It's called disaster gentrification. An already vulnerable neighborhood - having the impacts of COVID is already accelerating the gentrification that's already happening. So, we're very concerned about that.”

Volunteer Carmen Hom, from the InterIm Community Development Association, delivers groceries to elderly and low-income residents in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle, Washington on May 28, 2020. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, non-profits in the area banded together to prepare and deliver hot meals and groceries to people afraid to go out because of racial profiling and fear of catching Covid-19. Says Vincent Kwan, the program manager for InterIm, ”It's called disaster gentrification. An already vulnerable neighborhood - having the impacts of COVID is already accelerating the gentrification that's already happening. So, we're very concerned about that.”