Sentences with phrase «lower middle class neighborhood»

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According to Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law, this was achieved when zoning ordinances began «to reserve middle - class neighborhoods for single - family homes that lower - income families of all races could not afford.»

Of the several slums I have visited periodically since 1973, one is gone, replaced by two - decker row houses, and another is being transformed into a lower - middle - class manufacturing neighborhood.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

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.

I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, in a lower - middle - class suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Columbus.

Marion is a double - shift - working psych ward nurse, who lives with her husband Larry (Tracy Letts, acting older than he is), sullen adopted son Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), and Lady Bird in a lower - middle class neighborhood.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

Murray emphasizes in particular the degree to which the better educated and professional have concentrated in certain neighborhoods, and how opportunities for the upper middle class of college - goers to interact with and know neighbors of lower classes have declined.

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.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

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.

In 1982, Kathleen Wilcox did a comparative ethnographic study of a classroom in a lower - middle - class neighborhood and an upper - middle - class neighborhood classroom.

Yet another study seems to indicate that white and Asian middle - class families benefit more than minority and lower - class families from open enrollment programs where students can choose to go to public schools outside of their neighborhoods.

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.

The middle class and even most lower class folks don't have this problem because if they're stuck in a failing school, they can always MOVE out of the neighborhood.

E. L. Haynes, for example, receives many applications from middle - class families who proactively seek information because of the school's reputation, and it therefore directs all its recruitment efforts — from distributing information outside grocery stores to speaking at neighborhood association meetings — to low - income communities.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

From the book jacket: The attic room at 26a Waifer Avenue in the lower - middle - class London neighborhood of Neasden is a sanctuary for identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter.

The attic room at 26a Waifer Avenue in the lower - middle - class London neighborhood of Neasden is a sanctuary for identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter.

New York City's Lower East Side is rich in history, the proud home of many ethnicities and cultures, a neighborhood simultaneously old and new, rich and poor, more and more middle - class, drawing streams of tourists every year seeking bold clothing designers, authentic cuisine, and outsider art.

East of the center are mostly lower - income areas with some middle - class neighborhoods such as Jardín Balbuena.

A majority of Ugly houses are typically in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, but sometimes in moderate or middle class neighborhoods.

If you lived in a neighborhood that lenders considered «hazardous» you didn't get access to the low - cost mortgages that helped grow the middle class in the 20th century.