Sentences with phrase «poor residents»

Four of the county's biggest employment hubs are located outside of the city — a good distance from the bulk of poor residents who live within the city limits.

The educational marketplace doesn't work when poor residents live far away from the neighborhoods with better schools.

They sold off many council homes in a right to buy scheme, giving poorer residents the chance at prosperity.

As co-deans of the law school, the Cahns pioneered legal programs for poor residents of the District, and, many years later, when the school fell on hard times, the Cahns returned to Washington to play crucial roles in mobilizing the community and securing support to launch the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law as a successor to the Antioch School of Law.

#gentrification #displacement #race #class #technology #industry #neo - colonialism Any conversation among artists these days is bound to turn to the question of gentrification — the process of urban renewal by private developers that ultimately displaces poor residents in favor of the upwardly mobile.

But detailed surveys of the local housing market show that Kingston, along with every other community in Ulster County is suffering from a dearth of housing for poor residents.

 Many fundraising events have been held, with people around the town participating in bingo, den rental, donations, BBQs and other fundraisers, allowing the Lions to help poorer residents with educational and medical expenses.

While New York has been a leader in protecting homeowners against foreclosures and defaults, the state should promote available mandated low - cost checking accounts to help poorer residents take advantage of the security of the banking system and avoid having their savings swallowed by various small bank fees, said attorney Kirsten Keefe of the Empire Justice Center.

In his State of the State address Monday, Cuomo laid out a series of proposals, from free college tuition to a childcare tax credit increase, that he says will help the state's middle class and poor residents while maintaining its historically progressive values.

His work expands the conversation about ethnic neighborhoods beyond the Chinatowns and other urban «enclaves,» where poor residents of similar ethnicity have often lived because they lacked other choices.

According to Webster's Dictionary, gentrification is «the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle - class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents».

The free insurance covered specific high - impact medical conditions — such as heart disease and cancer — which poor residents often die from because they are unable to pay for the necessary expensive treatments.

Through stories, historical anecdotes, and different types of memorials, poor residents produce a neighbourhood identity, giving rise to innovative forms of community membership.

Ukip sensed a chance at victory among the disaffected Labour voters in the seat, which in various guises has been Labour for the past 50 years, ever since housing estates were built to relocate thousands of poor residents from central Manchester back in the early 1960s.

City Councilman Robert Jackson, however, said he spoke with a resident who was fearful that the improved malls are just a part of plans to gentrify the neighborhood and kick poor residents out.

Real estate and land prices increased sharply, making homes in tsunami - safe locations unaffordable to poorer residents wanting to move there.

During the peak flower - collecting season in May and June, the region's poorest residents migrate to the highlands and bed down in caves or temporary huts in order to collect more than 90 species of flowers in the plant family Eriocaulaceae, which includes the sempre - vivas.

The artist Mary Ellen Carroll's project to give free Internet access to the city's poorer residents by tapping into unused frequencies along the I - 10 has an office «in the armpit of Robert E. Lee,» as Carroll described it to me from her makeshift command center in Lee Circle, where a statue of the general seems to gaze disapprovingly upon the New Orleans Museum District.

He also talks about the outsize impact on poorer residents with Nicole Hernandez Hammer, the Southeast Advocacy Coordinator for Climate & Energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Only 41 percent of trips by Denmark's poorest residents happen in cars, compared to 72 percent by the poorest Americans.

The greater the concentration of Hispanics, Asians, African Americans or poor residents in an area, the more likely that potentially dangerous compounds such as vanadium, nitrates and zinc are in the mix of fine particles they breathe.

Proposals in both the Senate and House would cut funding to SNAP and reduce funding available for poor residents to feed themselves, said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which will release its report Friday.

Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban population — with poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.

On the lower floors live the families and poorer residents while at the top reside the wealthier residents and local celebrities.

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

Rents were set at a level beyond the reach of the city's poorest residents, including many of those displaced from their oft - times decent homes in the oft - times decent neighborhoods cleared to build the projects.

When some poor resident of the 3rd world has to sell his wares just to survive I'd say there's a fair (unfair?)

«His legacy is the work he did for the poorest residents of Bushwick and Ridgewood, where thousands of people live in affordable housing on lots that were once burned out and garbage - filled,» the chairman continued.

Cuomo said the federal aid losses will ripple through the health care system and «devastate» one of the state's top industries, with damage far beyond the loss of health care coverage for the state's poorest residents.

These hospitals are a critical element of the safety net, serving some of the poorest residents in the state.

It criticized COR Development Co. for obtaining lucrative tax breaks for its harbor project «without committing to providing jobs for the poorest residents of our city.»

There has also been criticism that the rezoning plan would not provide enough affordable housing for the city's poorest residents.

The speaker said he's going to push for half - fare MetroCards for the poorest residents — with the city picking up the $ 212 million annual tab.

Various groups have criticized the mayor's initial housing plan for targeting middle - income tenants, arguing that the program failed to adequately help the city's poorest residents.

An East End council has been accused of «social cleansing» after seeking to find housing for its poorest residents in Stoke - on - Trent.

But it paves the way for an all - out lobbying effort from activists and labor unions such as DC - 37 and the New York State Nurses Association, which argue that the current definition of safety net is overly broad and that dozens of hospitals, which serve the state's poorest residents, are unable to survive on the current Medicaid rates.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer on Thursday rejected the city's proposal to rezone East Harlem, arguing that it doesn't do enough to curb displacement and doesn't provide adequate housing for the neighborhood's poorest residents.

(The city uses a kitchen - sink toolkit of other subsidies to create housing for its poorest residents.)

Rents across the area go up and, Greenberg argues, poor residents can't afford to live anywhere near their old home.

«His legacy is the work he did for the poorest residents of Bushwick and Ridgewood, where thousands of people live in affordable housing on lots that were once burned out and garbage - filled,» he said.

The rezoning was touted by the de Blasio administration as an example of how to meet the interests of developers while expanding affordable housing, but it drew sharp criticism from activists in the neighborhood and some elected officials, who argued it didn't go far enough in ensuring that space would be reserved for the neighborhood's poorest residents.

Some people, like Harlem State Sen. Bill Perkins, think that including the more affluent Hudson Valley counties in the calculation skews the numbers, putting affordable housing out of the reach of poorer residents.

Despite praising de Blasio as a «very smart guy,» the mayor ridiculed the candidate for railing against the wealthy, who help pay for many of the services that benefit the city's poorer residents.

They say the data shows casinos are a bad gamble for New Yorkers, especially for the poorest residents.

The letter criticized COR Development Co. for obtaining lucrative tax breaks for its harbor project «without committing to providing jobs for the poorest residents of our city.»

Green Party chair Howie Hawkins says that would further segregate many of the poorest residents in central New York.

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years doesn't do enough to help the city's poorest residents, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

Many community residents and activists also cited fears of gentrification and displacement of poor residents, if the rezoning won approval.

At the same time, the rental prices dropped for the newly built homes near the coast, drawing in poorer residents.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).