Sentences with phrase «gentrifying community»

I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which is a rapidly gentrifying community populated by many different ethnic groups.

In part, it was a strategy to retain students as the district's gentrifying community increasingly chose private schools and the neighboring Denver public schools over the overwhelmingly poor and diverse Adams 50.

In this neighborhood, Mendez was seen during her three terms as a strong advocate for public housing tenants and for affordable housing in a rapidly gentrifying community.

Not exact matches

«We've gone condo crazy, and certainly it's destabilized a number of communities, and we need to look to re-stabilize our communities,» Mr. Wright, who represents swiftly gentrifying central Harlem, told the Observer.

Ethnographic case studies of classrooms in two gentrifying schools examine how social interactions, instructional decisions, and labeling and sorting practices relate to broader community discourses of race, class, and academic achievement.

In the first phase, I use observations of public meetings, interviews with community stakeholders, and analysis of local media coverage to examine the shifting understandings, assumptions, and norms underlying debates over school desegregation in rapidly gentrifying areas of New York City.

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.

Especially communities in the inner - ring suburbs of flourishing cities, which are increasingly becoming magnets for poor and working - class families priced out of gentrifying areas?

It stated: «Not only does this guise have little to no bearing on the actual works being shown, the choice of visual signifiers is a racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown that James Cohan Gallery is currently gentrifying.»

The all - volunteer group Arts in Bushwick created the book not only to celebrate the creative community that lives here, but also to acknowledge the artists» role as a catalyst for gentrifying a neighborhood and its negative effects.

Recruiting volunteers from throughout the Bushwick community has been part of a larger mission to make Arts in Bushwick more inclusive in a diverse and gentrifying neighborhood.

Collaboration and community have been central to L.A. painter Laura Owens's practice since the 1990s, though she now stands in the center of debates about the role of artists in gentrifying cities.

To identify the fastest - gentrifying ZIP codes, RentCafe researchers looked at 2000 U.S. Census Bureau data and 2016 American Community Survey findings to see the changes that took place over a decade and a half in 11,000 U.S. ZIP codes.