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The Forty Years War
Supportive Housing Faces
Down Routine Opposition
BUYERS WITH DEEP POCKETS
THREATEN AFFORDABILITY
Of Green Awnings
And Dollar Signs
Maybe Beloved Shops
Don't Have To Disappear
Upstart Could Bring Hip-Hop To The Hill
Will The Real New York
Liberal Please Stand Up
It's Not Just Academic:
Union Rights On Campus
Why 'The Other Half'
Lived -- And Lives On
Would 125th St. Rezoning
Mean A Dream Deferred?
From Polonia To Hotspot:
A Less Ethnic Greenpoint
An Atlas of Local Plans:
Pointing the Way Forward?
It's Not A Movement
Without A Movie
Making Eye Contact:
Seeing The Overlooked
From Astoria to Woodside:
Inside the Biggest Borough
Artists' Housing:
Promise Or Threat?
Developers' Incentives:
Now With More Caveats
Red Hook's
Lost Horizons
Not Like It Used to Be:
Teens Rally For 'Hood
Prized Housing Tickets
Now Must Find Matches
Gentrification and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities. Urban gentrification is associated with migration within a population.
In the past decade, the issue of gentrification has become increasingly charged, with opponents maintaining that it can result in housing discrimination and harassment while proponents argue that it helps to rehabilitate neighborhoods.
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Launch Party: PLOT Volume 2
Thursday, May 30, 2013
07:00p - 09:00p
Services for the UnderServed (SUS) 35th Anniversary Gala
Thursday, June 06, 2013
13th Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference
Thursday, June 06, 2013
8:00a - 6:30p
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Supporting Businesses, Strengthening Neighborhoods
The city's commissioner of small business services says New York's efforts to bolster Business Improvement Districts will help to preserve the mom-and-pop character of neighborhood retail.
Opinion: Small Businesses Suffer Under A Businessman Mayor
As City Limits reports on the plight of small businesses in the five boroughs, a lobbyist for small firms blames the struggle mostly on Mayor Bloomberg.
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The Tackling Poverty Series at Galapagos Art Space in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn.Tackling Poverty (Manhattan)
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