Sentences with phrase «while gentrifying»

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While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

The third bill, S. 6527 will end the «preferential rent scam,» which gives landlords the ability to offer tenants a low initial rent, while they reserve the right to massively increase the rent upon lease renewal, often to push tenants out of apartments in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

The change was controversial: Some PS 307 parents worried that a community institution that has long nurtured black and Latino families would be «taken over» by outsiders from the gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO, while some DUMBO families worried that the school's low test scores mean their children might not be challenged.