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Jeremy Liu, executive director of the Boston-based Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), will step down after over 10 years with the organization. Liu will be returning to his home state of California as the new Executive Director of East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) in Oakland, Calif.

Paul Weech was named senior vice president for policy in a joint hiring by the Housing Partnership Network and the Stewards for Affordable Housing for the Future. Weech is a housing expert who has worked in housing, community development, and financial services. His joint hiring represents a new partnership for the two organizations, which have pooled their resources to create the position of a Washington-based policy director

Shelterforce remembers Franklyn Hutchins, a community organizer and a staunch defender of tenant rights in Newark, NJ (including a leader in the city’s famed rent strike in the 1970s), who died in November after a battle with cancer. He was 75. A member of the Shelterforce Collective (a network of tenant organizers and community activists living in and around Newark in the mid- to late-70s), Hutchins came to Newark in the 1960s during a time of civil unrest and worked as a tenant and community organizer. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple, and Rutgers, Hutchins advocated for poor and elderly tenants in Newark, informing them of their legal rights and helping them to stand up to landlords and politicians. “His insights about his work in Newark informed us, helped us in making our choices of issues to write about, and helped us in our analysis,” said Patrick Morrissy, NHI board secretary, and member of the Shelterforce Collective.