Sentences with phrase «less affluent city»

The rising home values — and rent prices alongside them — are associated with displacement of less affluent city residents who can no longer afford area living costs.

Bruce Sterling recently wrote in The Atlantic about the need to «stop saying «smart cities»» because of the risk that more affluent cities will reap the rewards of data and technology while leaving less affluent cities even further behind.

Not exact matches

They took the concept of the Saks Fifth Avenue personal shopper and moved it online,» says Bernie Yoo, co-founder of New York City - based Bombfell, which offers similar personal - stylist subscription services but targets less affluent males.

Residents of Baltimore's less affluent communities have been complaining for years about tax incentives for waterfront development and crumbs for neighborhoods struggling to survive, and no amount of explanation about the difference between tax increment financing and direct city subsidies can...

Traditionally, St. Paul has been the less favored twin — «Before I was elected mayor of St. Paul, my mother in Brooklyn thought the Twin Cities were Minneapolis and Indianapolis,» says Norm Coleman, who is now a U.S. senator — and there were doubts that the more affluent suburbs west of the Mississippi would cross the river to support the embryonic franchise.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

But City Council members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson have previously introduced legislation that would afford every New Yorker a lawyer in housing court — where less affluent New Yorkers are often up against better - heeled landlords — that the Independent Budget Office has estimated would cost $ 100 million.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

And we will begin to redress some of the profound inequalities that exist today... Cities in California typically are spending much less right now — before this kicks in — than affluent districts.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

The path less travelled Restaurants in large, affluent cities such as London, Paris and New York, are invariably more expensive than similar - quality restaurants in, say, the Italian countryside.

She also suggests it may be a class issue: in certain parts of certain cities, getting your child a debit card is just the norm, while in less affluent neighbourhoods, this wouldn't even be a discussion.

Seven years ago I didn't know that the shelter for the fairly affluent county I lived in killed 25 % of all the dogs that were not reclaimed by their owners or that a city less than ten miles away killed 50 % of those dogs.