Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods by gentrification»

The sign attempts to rename part of the borough as the Piano District, encapsulating many of the fears borough residents have about being pushed out of their neighborhoods by gentrification and rising rents.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

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But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single - family bungalows are replaced by high - density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.

He is mystified by cell phones and the gentrification of the neighborhood where he fell into drugs and killed a man.

The boards, which are appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, have criticized the rezoning plans as not providing enough housing that is affordable to the actual income levels of people in the neighborhoods and for fear that it would spark more gentrification and overcrowding.

Now though, he finds himself squeezed in by the approaching gentrification of his neighborhood.

«MONUMENT AVE.,» set in an Irish American neighborhood in Boston, follows the plight of a petty criminal whose secure world is shaken by gentrification and a persistent cop.

We don't believe that gentrification and displacement are the inevitable destiny for our neighborhoods, or that historical patterns of inequality are overcome by drawing middle - class students into internally segregated magnet programs in our neighborhood schools.

DeVille of Bronx, N.Y., an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, says the work is inspired by Jacob Lawrence's Migration series and that it comments on gentrification in the Washington neighborhood.

Pescador will initiate the project by trying to understand the socio - economic wealth of Santa Monica as a model for other Los Angeles neighborhoods, serving as both an aspirational image and as a source of anxiety over gentrification and displacement.

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.

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.