Sentences with phrase «income urban neighborhoods»

I wanted to get input from you on investing in lower income urban neighborhoods.

Prenatal exposure to pesticides — common in agricultural areas as well as low - income urban neighborhoods, where the chemicals are used to control cockroaches and other insects — can significantly affect a child's ability to succeed in school, a trio of new studies finds.

Over the last 50 years, thousands of Catholic schools have closed, most in low - income urban neighborhoods.

Big City School is located in a low - income urban neighborhood and serves primarily Latino (65 percent) and black (33 percent) students; 93 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

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As the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrification.

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 stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

All black and Latino students don't come from low - income, urban neighborhoods.

These CMOs operate exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serving predominantly low - income, high - need students (see Figure 1).

The fact that most of it comes from urban schools in low - income neighborhoods leaves most audiences astonished.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

There currently are 99 KIPP schools in 20 states and Washington, D.C., serving 26,000 students from low - income rural and urban neighborhoods.

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

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.

The Urban Parks initiative sought to improve the quantity and quality of city parks for public use, particularly in low - income neighborhoods, and to broaden urban leaders» understanding of the importance of parks to the health and vitality of ciUrban Parks initiative sought to improve the quantity and quality of city parks for public use, particularly in low - income neighborhoods, and to broaden urban leaders» understanding of the importance of parks to the health and vitality of ciurban leaders» understanding of the importance of parks to the health and vitality of cities.

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.

In 2014, Bourouissa spent nine months in Strawberry Mansion, a low - income neighborhood in North Philadelphia, working with the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club.

The museum's role as a cultural hub and urban oasis in its low - to - moderate income neighborhood cultivates the hope that increasing access to art will inspire, educate, and transform lives.

San Francisco: Friends of the Urban Forest assist residents plant and care for street trees and sidewalk gardens in urban areas, especially low - income neighborhUrban Forest assist residents plant and care for street trees and sidewalk gardens in urban areas, especially low - income neighborhurban areas, especially low - income neighborhoods.

Today in dense urban areas, tenants frequently change apartments as their income grows and they tire of different neighborhoods.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

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.

«Builders will need to focus more on homes geared for moderate incomes, partner with the government on initiatives to transform distressed urban neighborhoods and overcome labor shortages through a combination of workforce development training and pressure to ease artificial restrictions on the supply of labor,» added Kirchner.

Caribbeans were not accused of gentrification as gentrification is a process of renovation and revival of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of influx of more affluent residents, which results in increased property values and the displacing of lower - income families and small businesses.