Sentences with phrase «pushed out of the neighborhood»

She pledges on her campaign website to keep homeowners from being pushed out of the neighborhood and advocate for developments that receive input from and benefit the community.

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.

Commissioner Vicki Been kicked off a City Planning Commission hearing Wednesday by testifying in support of the proposal that's expected to drastically alter East New York, amid repeated concerns from residents who fear the changes will push them out of the neighborhood.

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.

Lower income families and students get pushed out of neighborhoods they once occupied and pushed directly into schools with lower resources and money, a cycle some parents seem to be fine with just as long as their child is being served.

Or are the artists already getting pushed out of the neighborhood in favor of galleries?

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Brown stopped the car in the neighborhood of Hancock Park and leaned across Fenty to open her door, trying to push her out.

We are turning the page, and making sure the same pressures that have pushed New Yorkers out of their neighborhoods are harnessed to build the next generation of affordable housing.»

The two leaders have pushed for the expansion of the accelerated classes throughout the city with more testing, and have pointed out neighborhoods in the South Bronx and central Brooklyn that were, until recently, without G&T programs.

But critics of the rezoning say it will drive up housing costs, push out tenants and change the neighborhood's existing character.

The third bill, S. 6527 will end the «preferential rent scam,» which gives landlords the ability to offer tenants a low initial rent, while they reserve the right to massively increase the rent upon lease renewal, often to push tenants out of apartments in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

One woman questioned how de Blasio could be supportive of Puerto Rico following the aftermath of Hurricane Maria yet push a rezoning proposal that might price out Puerto Ricans and other minority groups from the neighborhood.

But the group fears that their current apartments and those of their neighbors will not be protected and as the neighborhood gentrifies landlords will be motivated to push them out to rent to higher - income tenants.

Her core message addresses gentrification and the affordable housing crisis in New York, though Dilan has been critical of his challenger for accepting campaign contributions from the young professionals pushing people out of the neighborhoods she says she wants to keep intact.

«We can not allow the people who created this neighborhood to be pushed out, pushed aside, because the developer wants to change the terms of the deal,» Stringer said.

And in the era of climate change, those fleeing sea - level rise will be on the lookout for a place to live on higher ground, which is likely to push people of color and the poor out of neighborhoods that have historically been mostly black or Caribbean.

And sometimes they push families out of certain neighborhoods, or entirely out of the city, especially if families feel they don't get what they need from the school system.

East Lake, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Atlanta has much to show us about how to revitalize an impoverished community without pushing out current residents.

Replacing struggling neighborhood schools with charter schools leaves too many children behind; we have documented the punitive, often financially burdensome discipline and push - out policies of some of the most heavily promoted charter schools.

Ms. Sprowal describes how her son was pushed out of the school and eventually embraced by a neighborhood public school, PS 75.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why this solution may not be feasible, but it sure would provide a disincentive to charters to NOT cull the cream of the crop from public schools then push the more challenging cases out of their schools and into neighborhood public schools, at least not midway through the academic year when the negative consequences of such outcomes are compounded because of the disruption this transience evidently brings to the student and her new schoolmates.

She said, «Do you know that all of the Spanish speakers in this neighborhood are being pushed out?

Boyle Heights residents fear gentrification will push out longtime residents of Boyle Heights and change the flavor of the community, like the musicians who gather in the neighborhood's Mariachi Plaza looking for gigs.

NEW YORK (AP)-- When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.