Sentences with phrase «poorest neighborhoods of the city»

They were all recruited from agencies that serve the poorest neighborhoods of the city.

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He added that Sanders spent time in Puerto Rico touring some of the city's poorest neighborhoods and meeting «with people confronting the financial crisis.»

The poorest in these bidder cities are likely to feel the biggest impact of HQ2, as Amazon employees boasting six - figure salaries accelerate neighborhood gentrification and price out existing residents.

In the early «60s, when a highway was cut through a mainly black area of the city, poor, mostly black, people began to rent in the neighborhood.

Forced relocation and dispersal of poor families into new neighborhoods is being considered in some cities.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

The graffiti that we have joined in eradicating is vandalism, done in poor inner city areas, and is quite often an indicator of a crime - ridden neighborhood.

Some have suggested that we should skip the task of rebuilding social capital in inner - city neighborhoods by moving the poor to neighborhoods and suburbs where social capital already exists.

In It Takes a Nation, Rebecca Blank notes that only 12 percent of the U.S. poor live in inner - city neighborhoods with concentrated poverty.)

In 1996 former HUD chief Henry Cisneros praised the Mid-North Church Council of Indianapolis, an ecumenical coalition, for its social services to the Mapleton - Fall Creek neighborhood, a poor, primarily black area in the inner city.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

Moore said some of that money could be used to improve and build parks in his Far North Side ward, which includes most of Rogers Park, one of the city's most park - poor neighborhoods.

«He accused Duggan of being corrupt, favoring downtown business interests over neighborhood concerns, and effectively creating «two Detroits:» one for prosperous newcomers, and another for mostly poor, longtime city residents.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

He is expected to contrast downtown and waterfront development touted in the mayor's campaign brochures with crumbling East Side neighborhoods that help rank Buffalo as one of the nation's poorest cities.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

Many, especially in the city's poorest neighborhoods, see the city school system as in need of major improvement.

One comes from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, the other has built an organization that helps network more than 400 local, small businesses.

Diaz added, «Children in the Bronx and other poor neighborhoods across the city are in danger of being left behind in this rapidly changing work place.

For more than a month now, cases of Legionnaires» — a form of pneumonia especially dangerous for the elderly and for people with underlying health issues — have been reported throughout a section of the South Bronx, the city's poorest neighborhood.

The 106 - member Democratic conference includes representatives of suburban, inner city, rural, wealthy, poor and middle - class neighborhoods.

City officials say the money would have helped remove the lead hazard from about 250 homes per year in some of Syracuse's poorest neighborhoods.

According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy groups as being out of touch with the needs of tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»

The city of Syracuse will file a challenge to maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency which, if approved, would drive up flood insurance costs dramatically for homeowners in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In between his visits, Ms. Nixon formally declared her candidacy, making her first appearance in Brownsville, Brooklyn, speaking before a mostly black audience in one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city.

She worked as a bilingual teacher and served as principal of IS 218 in Washington Heights, and was later named superintendent of School District 8 in the Bronx, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

The district contains a mix of affluent, GOP - leaning suburbs and poorer, heavily Democratic city neighborhoods.

Mr. Cabrera, who also serves as senior pastor of New Life Outreach International, accused Mr. Rivera of failing to secure enough resources for the district, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In poorer neighborhoods, the fee is seen as simply another tax, said Bertha Lewis, president of The Black Institute, an anti-poverty think tank that opposed the fee in New York City.

Members of the Rochester Voter Alliance are working to increase the number of registered voters living in poor city neighborhoods.

With 37 percent of locals living below the federal poverty level, Brownsville is the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and the seventh - poorest in New York City, according to city dCity, according to city dcity data.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

«Reduce crime and gun violence and stabilize neighborhoods: A randomized controlled study: As much as a 29 percent reduction in gun violence in poor neighborhoods could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings every year for cities affected by blighted spaces.»

For one, the current fiscal crisis presents the U.S. with an unprecedented opportunity to wean itself off fossil fuels — whether implicated in coal mining on Native American lands, congested freeways running through inner cities, or refineries sited along the fence lines of poor neighborhoods.

By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu's team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighborhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.

Photos of Luanda, Angola, tell a tale of two cities: sprawling poor neighborhoods and a glitzy waterfront.

July 30, 2016 • Anti-poverty activists organized a tent city in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods to protest the Democratic National Convention.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

The Young Women's Leadership School (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York.

We are sitting in a small conference room of North Star Academy Vailsburg Middle School, in Newark's West Ward, one of this poor city's poorest neighborhoods.

Middle - income neighborhoods are showing the greatest gains in registration, while enrollments have actually fallen in nineteen of the city's thirty - four poorest zip codes.

The New Jersey Department of Higher Education has awarded a $ 1.6 million planning grant to Rutgers University to create an innovative community center housing a laboratory school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the nation's poorest cities.

The school sits in the midst of one of New York City's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, the same neighborhood where former principal Patrick F. Daly was killed in the crossfire of a drug - related gun battle in 1992.

She has demonstrated that schools comprised almost entirely of English learners, in some of the city's poorest and densest neighborhoods, can achieve extraordinary results and serve as models of excellence.

In the District, Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced this month that she is closing 15 schools, all of them east of Rock Creek Park and many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

The school serves some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In Washington, D.C., for instance, private schools proliferate in the white, wealthier areas of the city and majority - black charter schools are situated in the black, poorer neighborhoods (see figures 1 and 2).

All 15 schools marked for closure are east of Rock Creek Park, many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and all had below - average test scores.