Sentences with phrase «in white neighborhoods»

I once was coming out of a church service when a gentleman stopped me to ask how he can increase the diversity in his life since he lives in an all white neighborhood.

Starring Oscar Isaac as a mayor of a small New York town, the six - part HBO miniseries chronicles the fallout of community relations when the city is federally mandated to build low - income housing in a white neighborhood.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Based on a book by New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin, the six - part miniseries recounts how a court - ordered requirement to build a small number of low - income housing units in a white neighborhood of Yonkers created what Simon called «such racial strife and such an astonishing level of political rage and fury, it paralyzed the city for a couple of years, destroyed political careers, and alienated neighbor from neighbor.»

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

In the New York City metropolitan area, for instance, renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 57.5 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 67.5 percent — considerably above the 37.8 percent spent by renters in white neighborhoods.

My brother had grown up in an all white neighborhood until White Flight swept through in a little under two years.

Green says Sharpton turned on him because of a controversial flier sent out by Green supporters in white neighborhoods linking Sharpton to Ferrer.

Based on a poem Diggs wrote in college about growing up the only black child in a white neighborhood, Chocolate Me!

New York City claimed it did not segregate its projects, but Woodside and similar complexes in white neighborhoods accepted only a token few black tenants because Housing Authority policy was to respect «existing community patterns.»

These methods to prevent blacks from living in white neighborhoods resulted in the segregation of neighborhoods that have had crippling effects for minorities in the U.S, such as increased poverty, poorer health, and higher exposure to violent crime (Bethea 2013).

Facts: Over a one - year period, sales associates for Matchmaker Real Estate showed black testers in Chicago homes that were below their price range in racially mixed areas and white testers homes that were above their price range in white neighborhoods.

«The neighborhoods of America can't recover from the devastation of foreclosure until there is no longer a double standard between how these transactions are handled in white neighborhoods versus neighborhoods of color.»

Homeowners in white neighborhoods have to spend 15.2 percent.

In the last five years, the amount of income spent on rent has grown more in minority communities than in white ones, as well — by three percentage points in white neighborhoods, four percentage points in black neighborhoods and seven percentage points in Hispanic neighborhoods.

Affluent or activist parents enroll their youngsters in three or four largely autonomous elementary schools in white neighborhoods, or move to private schools, charter schools, or the suburbs.

His announcement followed a report released by his office, which detailed how individuals from predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods were arrested at a higher rate on marijuana charges than those living in white neighborhoods.

In San Francisco, Calif., renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 74.8 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 62.5 percent; renters in white neighborhoods have to spend 48.8 percent.

However, de jure segregation can also refer to codes and standards set up among private organizations — for example, in the early 20th century, the National Association of Real Estate Boards included in its code of ethics a rule prohibiting its members from selling houses in white neighborhoods to black homebuyers.

All of Trident's offices are in white neighborhoods, where it makes the overwhelming majority...

«In white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he said.

Are you bringing a dark skinned lady to live in a white neighborhood?

These included siting schools so that they might draw from demographically distinct neighborhoods and recruitment in neighborhoods of color or in white neighborhoods to create a diverse mix of students, among other possibilities.

Above them: «Bennett Kayser tried to stop Latino children from attending schools in white neighborhoods.»

«In white neighborhoods, only 1 in 41 properties that could have received a nuisance citation did receive one,» Desmond points out.