Sentences with phrase «wealthy neighborhoods as»

We are by no means wealthy, nor live within wealthy neighborhoods as most are middle class neighbors.

This finding suggests that features such as parks and communal landscaping that are characteristic of wealthier neighborhoods as well as lush landscaping choices of neighbors can compensate for local choices of homeowners.

Not exact matches

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

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'd also like to see an end to vacancy decontrol and a revamp of the 421 - a program that takes the neighborhood Area Median Income into consideration, as opposed to the current system that includes New York City and the wealthier areas of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties.

In wealthier neighborhoods, the exterior of vacant buildings is usually maintained, while in neighborhoods such as Harlem or the Lower East Side, vacant buildings tend to look dilapidated.

Dr. Brookfield and her colleagues studied Florida women with invasive cervical cancer and found that white or Hispanic women lived longer than African - Americans (who tended to be diagnosed later than other women), as did those with health insurance or who lived in wealthier neighborhoods.

Wealthy men seeking women for dating translates to living in posh hotels, eating grade A-beef and hitting the bar at the most exclusive of places and living in what can only be described as surprisingly rich neighborhoods next do to who's who in the world.

The movie concerns a seemingly normal nuclear family - Steve (David Duchovny), Kate (Demi Moore), Mick (Ben Hollingsworth), and Jenn (Amber Heard)- who, as it turns out, are actually a foursome of stealth marketers, with their task to infiltrate a wealthy neighborhood and surreptitiously convince its various residents to buy a series of high - end (and not - so - high - end) products.

She gets a job working as a maid in a wealthy neighborhood, but when Christina is offered the opportunity to come home with a much bigger paycheck, she finds herself employed by a local drug cartel.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

«Parents from low - income communities should be treated with as much respect as parents in wealthier neighborhoods.

It also upped the ante in the ongoing battle between the politically powerful union and well - monied charter schools — one in which charter schools such as Success Academy locate in black and brown low - income neighborhoods and continually outperform public schools in wealthier public schools districts.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

Dr. Noguera, the N.Y.U. education professor and adviser to the city, applauded Mr. Klein for creating a grading system that rewarded improvement from year to year so that schools in poor neighborhoods had the same chance of achieving a good grade as those in wealthier areas.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

Although these families live in wealthy black neighborhoods themselves, the school districts as a whole are usually not as wealthy compared to white suburbs because they have a closer proximity to poorer black areas (Lacy, 2007).

Besides the racial composition, wealthy black neighborhoods function are essentially the same as wealthy white neighborhoods; there are spacious lawns, neighborhood associations, and «block» parties that are held in the lavish cul - de-sacs (Lacy, 2007).

Impoverished urban neighborhoods also have limited funding for public services such as schools, and thus the educational opportunities in these locations are often subpar compared to wealthier suburbs (Darling - Hammond, 2009).

Although buying a house in these neighborhoods may be risky, it is desirable, because in this environment black families can be the racial majority in a wealthy area, which is not typical in the black community as a whole.

I can't guess what is happening in the wealthier neighborhoods, but I suspect that credit scores might not be seeing the same declines as high card limit consumers cut back their spending to counteract the impact of some limits being lowered.

MacDougal Alley was originally built in the 1830's as stables for wealthy families in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village and Washington Square.

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

But too often, low - income neighborhoods and communities of color get picked as sites for polluting factories, while wealthier, predominantly white communities are left alone.

Located in the western part of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills is one of California's most wealthy neighborhoods with a population of around 35,000 residents.1 Beverly Hills has been listed as one of the most expensive places to live in America.

«We have started to see a recovery in key housing indicators such as median list price and inventory,» says DuBois of the nation's wealthiest neighborhoods.