Sentences with phrase «gentrifying neighborhood»

This article explores how the disparate cultures found in gentrifying neighborhoods clash in schools, and the pivotal role school leaders play in determining whether integration succeeds or fails, based on their ability and willingness to bridge the two worlds.

In the area that includes the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick, the median price rose 17 percent from a year earlier to $ 510,000, the brokerage said.

Stonewalling a pay raise over the issue might increase the odds that the problem gets solved, but it could be to the detriment of the members who rely solely on their legislative pay, many of whom are minorities who live in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods where costs of living have soared since the last increase.

This is especially true in gentrifying neighborhoods like East Harlem and parts of Brooklyn, as we reported just last week.

Meanwhile, Windsome Pendegrass is hoping state lawmakers, particularly democrats who represent gentrifying neighborhoods like hers, will act on behalf of the people who elected them.

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.

Someone is papering a rent - stabilized housing complex in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood with flyers urging tenants to list their homes on Airbnb, housing advocates told the Daily News.

Klein has not signed on to any repeal bills and lately has been recruiting additional senators to join his group, including some who represent gentrifying neighborhoods such as Inwood, Jackson Heights and Crown Heights.

However, many at the town hall meeting at Johnson Community Center were not buying it, alleging the plan is really about gentrifying the neighborhood.

We can see this practice being carried out by white middle and upper - middle class families who are gentrifying neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Jaclyn Jacunski, an established local artist known for using materials scavenged from building sites, often in gentrifying neighborhoods poses for a portrait with her latest maze installation Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at the Chicago Artists Coalition gallery in Chicago.

And more importantly, should you be targeting gentrifying neighborhoods.

In the rapidly changing and gentrifying neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Martinez finds connections between the precarious foundations of home for families targeted by immigration policies and speculative real estate markets, and the physical signifiers of forced displacement and exclusion such as «gentrification fences» and border walls.

In the past, some have objected that giving charters the option of a neighborhood preference would exclude disadvantaged students from high - performing schools in gentrifying neighborhoods.

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.

In New York City, people seem always to be talking about real estate: how much they pay in rent, which neighborhoods have cheap apartments, for what princely sum their friend sold a home in a gentrifying neighborhood.

She opened Sticky Fingers in the gentrifying neighborhood of Columbia Heights, in part to serve the students, artists, and activists who were moving in, but also to prove something: Vegan food can be delicious when done right.

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.»

Recent studies on inclusionary zoning found that these policies do help prevent housing prices from surging in gentrifying neighborhoods.

New York, NY: A new report released today by the NYU Furman Center details strategies used by local governments to address rising housing costs and displacement of low - income households in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Last year we highlighted the people - led organizations doing the hard work to keep New Yorkers in their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods that hold police violence accountable and the politicians that side with wealthy interests over constituents.

He was smoking a cigarette and sipping a bottle of Corona the morning we met, an odd site in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that boasts the dozens of higher earning white collar workers from companies like Harley - Davidson, and one multi-platinum - selling rock band vocalist.

He was smoking a cigarette and sipping a bottle of Corona the morning we met, an odd site in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that boasts the...

San Antonio — born Centeno, who now lives around the corner from his restaurant, had dreamed of owning a place in the gentrifying neighborhood.

Faulkner has vowed to tackle the city's convoluted, unfair property tax system, which gives huge financial advantages to owners of single - family homes in gentrifying neighborhoods but penalizes working - class homeowners and hits big commercial real estate owners especially hard.

The report found that Airbnb has played a significant role in rent spikes within tourists and gentrifying neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn (h / t The New York Times) and in 2016, New York City renters paid an additional $ 616 million due to the «price pressures created by Airbnb.»

Earlier this month, City comptroller Scott Stringer released a report pinned the blame for rent spikes within tourists and gentrifying neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn on Airbnb.

A Manhattan townhouse co-owned by the estranged founders of Two Boots, a New York City chain of quirky pizzerias, is being shopped in bankruptcy to pay off more than $ 5 million in debt as the restaurant grows beyond its roots in the gentrifying neighborhood.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Seven NYC schools are part of a new NYC Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socioeconomic balance in fast - gentrifying neighborhoods.

«It's a really big one I worry about, for myself included, as a renter in a very expensive, gentrifying neighborhood,» Furlong said.

More locally, Schneiderman's most aggressive stances were reserved for multifamily landlords who were accused of harassing rent - regulated tenants in gentrifying neighborhoods and replacing them with tenants willing to pay market rates.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Critics assail Mayor de Blasio for focusing affordable housing in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed the monitor last year after a probe by the state's Tenant Protection Unit found that the hedge fund - backed company had been using intimidation tactics like demanding proof of citizenship from immigrant tenants in order to rapidly empty rent - stabilized buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods.

«Poor people are getting pushed out — they can't afford the rent,» said Erwin Edwards, who bought his house in Bedford - Stuyvesant, another rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, in 1998.

Airbnb's growing influence caused rents to increase significantly in tourist areas and gentrifying neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where the majority of the company's rentals are concentrated, according to a report released on Thursday by the city comptroller's office.

Lewis has found that when she shows the inundation scenario maps to people in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, their eyes «light up.»

The crevices could be such a good environment for egg - brooding that the booming population has to spill over into the dangerously warm region outside, like a gentrifying neighborhood expanding into a rougher part of town.

He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men's friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly - gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

Schools in popular, gentrifying neighborhoods will continue to grow; successful schools of choice will continue to attract plenty of students (though their waiting lists should shrink); metropolitan areas that weathered the recession in good shape will continue to serve an expanding number of families and their schoolkids.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

Despite believing in equality, they discover in their gentrifying neighborhoods that this concept isn't pure, and diversity isn't always a pleasant and stimulating panoply of interesting experiences.

The parents I interviewed who were taking their children out of their gentrifying neighborhood's school shared stories of cultural dissonance that were minor affairs, but that crystallized for them the discomfort they felt as newcomers, and their inability to find a niche.

That's easier said than done, because the schools these newcomers find in their gentrifying neighborhoods often embrace practices that they find off - putting and difficult to accept.

Regardless, it hampers integration, because the white, upper - middle - class parents who send their children to schools in their gentrifying neighborhood do not want them spoken to in that way, whatever its label, and they often reconsider their schooling decision.

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.

The white parents were surprised to discover that not only is the authoritarian end of the schooling spectrum alive, which would be tolerable if not ideal, but also that their gentrifying neighborhood schools exhibit what these parents perceive to be an extreme and outdated education environment, characterized by strict discipline with yelling adults.