Sentences with phrase «mostly black residents»

In addition, thousands of the poorest residents in the city could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residents.

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He said the city's poor and mostly Black and Latino residents are getting the shaft.

Cops arrest more people for marijuana offenses in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods than in mostly white areas where residents complain about the drug at similar rates.

But the residents in the LeFrak affordable housing complex — which is comprised of mostly black and Latino people — say the cruel irony is that the new site will result in less elderly and disabled people being able to vote.

In addition to his private outreach, Mr. Cuomo has appeared alongside mostly black and Latino residents multiple times this month to decry the «filth» of New York City Housing Authority developments and to threaten to declare a state of emergency for the agency.

In 2004, in the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the streets of New Orleans were filled with floating men: the bloated corpses of mostly poor, black residents left behind by rescue services.