Sentences with phrase «pocket of poverty»

«The challenge is to keep tools in the hands of local governments to deal with pockets of poverty on a meaningful scale while ensuring governments exercise the awesome powers of eminent domain responsibly,» says Roger Platt, senior vice president and counsel of The Real Estate Roundtable, a Washington, D.C. — based advocacy group representing mainly owners and developers.

The Bronx Is Up Devastated for decades, the borough has roared back — but pockets of poverty remain.

There's a perception that it's abundant in affluence and that there is very small pockets of poverty but almost non-existent.

The $ 1.4 billion «Vital Brooklyn» effort aims to fight «entrenched pockets of poverty» in the area, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday, earmarking money for affordable housing, better access to healthcare and more farmers markets, anti-violence programming and recreation space in parts of Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant, East Flatbush, Brownsville and East New York.

The epidemic is not limited to inner city pockets of poverty; small - town America is also overcome by a tsunami of opioid addiction, putting strains on state and local social services and criminal justice systems.

The South is seen as especially vulnerable because of its warm, humid climate and pockets of poverty where more people live without air conditioning or proper window screens.

In Oklahoma, a mostly rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.

As well, Croak notes that there's greater job inequality in the U.S.. For instance, in Canada, equalization payments between the provinces have helped make the steps on the ladder that you need to climb less wide than in the U.S. «In comparison, the U.S. has several pockets of poverty, especially in the South,» says Corak.

If after all that, there are still a few pockets of poverty among seniors — Cross suggests there is among single or widowed elderly women who have never worked — these might better be addressed by better targeting of existing government benefits, Cross says.

«While this is encouraging, a closer look at the data will show deep pockets of poverty that still persist and disparities in a number of measures of child well - being including child health and safety throughout the state.»

Sullivan said the old model of replacing dense public housing units on a one - to - one basis only «perpetuated the model where you were concentrating very poor and extremely poor families in these isolated pockets of poverty.

Launched by the Obama administration in 2009, he said the aim of Choice Neighborhoods is to «deconcentrate pockets of poverty and transform them into multi-income neighborhoods that work because they have transportation, schools, grocery stores and other amenities.

An affluent bedroom community of New York City, with pockets of poverty, the county is rife with neither violent crime nor corporate malfeasance.

Obviously, the alleviation of our country's huge «pockets of poverty» is an essential means of preventing a vast amount of mental illness.

These «pockets of poverty and worklessness» are mainly found in urban areas, he said.

Numbers throughout the region reflect that this is an area with an aging population, high rates of cardiovascular disease and pockets of poverty, Haberstro said.

The voucher program began in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering subsidies to be used on the open rental market.

As you may guess, these are pockets of poverty, where community cats are reproducing at an alarming rate, and represent many of the strays being killed in the shelters.

High - rise Ghettos In Toronto, visible minorities are pushed into «pockets of poverty», Toronto Star, Feb. 3, 2001