Sentences with phrase «middle income neighborhoods»

Middle income neighborhoods are best suited for retail fix - and - flips and buy - and - hold strategies.

So, instead of buying on 1301 Joliet St. and living in Aurora North and having a potentially non conforming unit, you can buy a ranch in a nice middle income neighborhood in, say Lakewood or Wheat Ridge and rent the main floor or basement.

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According to Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law, this was achieved when zoning ordinances began «to reserve middle - class neighborhoods for single - family homes that lower - income families of all races could not afford.»

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have instead focused on giveaways to landlords and policies to undercut rent protections, which would have devastating consequences for middle and low income New Yorkers who will be squeezed out of their neighborhoods and communities.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

The report found that a number of small and mid-size arts organizations in low - and middle - income neighborhoods are financially strained.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

National teachers unions also hail the program as a way to attract teachers to high - need areas in low - and middle - income neighborhoods.

Middle - income neighborhoods are showing the greatest gains in registration, while enrollments have actually fallen in nineteen of the city's thirty - four poorest zip codes.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

It will be important to see whether Opt Out can expand to other states, grow in numbers, and branch out beyond middle - and upper - income neighborhoods.

And while the problem is most serious in poor neighborhoods, the awards day snapshot offered up by the upper - income Pearl Creek Elementary is mirrored in middle - and upper - middle - income schools around the country.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

The Alliance schools, which include 17 high schools and 9 middle schools, are all located in low - income neighborhoods but have an overall high school graduation rate of 94...

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

By middle school, many low - income students of color in San Jose's poorest neighborhoods have been tracked into a vicious cycle of failure, having fallen well below grade level and lacking the support they need to overcome their disconnect from school.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

The Alliance schools, which include 17 high schools and 9 middle schools, are all located in low - income neighborhoods but have an overall high school graduation rate of 94 percent and combined 2012 - 2013 API scores of 760, which exceeds state (735) and LA Unified (693) averages.

The report investigates how boundary participation rates in these neighborhoods vary with the neighborhood's characteristics (such as race and ethnicity, household income, access to transit, safety, and proximity to charter schools) separately at the elementary school level and at the middle and high school level.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

Middle - class, mixed - income neighborhoods have become less common as more neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and concentrated affluence have developed.

A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle - income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.

The empirical research indicates that gentrification can result in the restructuring of urban neighborhoods through the displacement of low - income residents of color, the loss of their culture and institutions, and the influx of middle to upper - class whites.

Far too predictably, our study reported that children who attended schools in the most severely low - income neighborhoods were likely to hear far fewer explanations, with those explanations offered at lower difficulty levels, than children in middle - and upper - income areas.

Rather than just enroll students from the low - income, high - crime neighborhood surrounding the school, DSST: Cole Middle School also enrolls additional students from across Denver.

That is also true of the Comer Process, which is a more comprehensive elementary and middle school reform model, developed and derived especially for low - income neighborhoods and schools, with high components of minority students.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

E. L. Haynes, for example, receives many applications from middle - class families who proactively seek information because of the school's reputation, and it therefore directs all its recruitment efforts — from distributing information outside grocery stores to speaking at neighborhood association meetings — to low - income communities.

«The location where we are right now (is) a neighborhood that is middle - income, middle - class and predominantly white,» Marcio Sierra said.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

However, in reality most middle schools in low - income Black and Latino neighborhoods have insufficient numbers of guidance counselors who are neither explicitly trained to handle or told to prioritize high school choice process advising (Perez 12).

East of the center are mostly lower - income areas with some middle - class neighborhoods such as Jardín Balbuena.

The share of solar installations within middle class neighborhoods — those in the $ 40,000 to $ 90,000 income range — continues to increase, meaning that solar installers are relying less on wealthier customers to drive growth and more on middle income customers.

The U.S. New York City: MillionTreesNYC which plants trees city - wide in low - to middle - income neighborhoods to increase green spaces will focus on its Fall Reforestation Day.

Adolescents were recruited from three inner - city urban middle schools in predominantly Hispanic, low - income neighborhoods of Miami - Dade County at the end of their seventh grade academic school year.

Nowak notes that the West Oak Lane neighborhood in Philadelphia for years had «been losing ground,» as middle income African American families moved to the suburbs and left behind abandoned houses and storefronts.

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood.

«We have families with upper, middle and lower incomes going to the same schools, and some of them are choosing to move to neighborhoods that they might not have known about if it weren't for the charter school there.»

over 1 million in rents annually, has dealt with thousands of rental residents in low, middle and upper income areas, in both «good» neighborhoods and «bad».