Sentences with phrase «while white neighborhoods»

They estimate that the typical neighborhood experienced 4.5 foreclosures per 100 homes during the crisis, but the figure rises to 8.1 and 6.2 homes in predominately black and Latino areas, respectively, while white neighborhoods lost only 2.3 homes on average.

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While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plants.

If you're staying close to home, pair this red top with white cutoff shorts and Jacks for a neighborhood parade then change into this off - the - shoulder dress to stay cool while oohing and aahing during the fireworks.

Four of the children are black or Hispanic and live in gritty neighborhoods, while the one white child lives in a leafy suburb.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

Tables of elderly black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

With many suburban neighborhoods divided into racial clusters, white students from white neighborhoods are attending almost all - white schools, while...

The schools are primarily located in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods, and while they have many of the freedoms granted charters in how the schools are run, they adhere to all district collective bargaining agreements and also receive their budgets directly from the district.

While it's evident that white teachers are also capable of nurturing students, teachers who are ethnically similar to their students are more likely to live in the same neighborhoods and share common experiences.

The Priestley site on Leonidas would symbolize social change, many said — traditionally, white schools in New Orleans were built on major thoroughfares like Leonidas, while black schools were tucked behind them in the neighborhood, like Johnson.

Willemstad's World Heritage City encompasses four colonial neighborhoods, including world - class museums and stunning architecture, while the white sand beaches and crystal turquoise waters of Westpunt, on the western coastline, can be reached in less than two hours.

While in the WPA, White also met and befriended photographer Gordon Parks, and the two of them would often walk through Chicago's South Side together, photographing and sketching the biography of the neighborhood.

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.

Lenders tended to view white neighborhoods as safe for mortgage lending, while tending to discriminate against predominantly African - American neighborhoods.

In San Francisco, Calif., renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 74.8 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 62.5 percent; renters in white neighborhoods have to spend 48.8 percent.

In the New York City metropolitan area, for instance, renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 57.5 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 67.5 percent — considerably above the 37.8 percent spent by renters in white neighborhoods.

According to the report, renters in majority black neighborhoods have to spend 43.7 percent of their income on rent, while renters in majority Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 48.1 percent; renters in majority white neighborhoods, to compare, have to spend 30.7 percent — on par with the ideal budget for housing, 30 percent.

Researchers found that white households were significantly more likely to leave areas with high foreclosure rates, while black and Latino families entered these neighborhoods out of necessity or to seek newly affordable housing options.

Two years INSPIRATION: Books featuring warm modern homes, as well as the strict preferences of the homeowners themselves REQUIREMENTS: Simplicity of design, sustainability, durability, practicality and a reverence for the traditional architecture of the neighborhood while maintaining a minimalist, modern aesthetic MATERIALS USED: Quartz countertops, ceramic and porcelain tiles, steel and wood - clad windows, white oak floors, walnut cabinetry, natural linens, reclaimed wood beams, concrete, plaster and lots of glass DESIGNERS»S FAVORITE ROOM: The multipurpose living space, especially since it contains an innovative and sculptural steel staircase