Brooklyn Home Case Study

There has been a recent phenomenon throughout the United States of gentrification. As older parts of neighborhoods are occupied by new tenants with money, the neighborhood changes and loses its old character. Those who might have lived in those neighborhoods their entire lives are pushed out as rents begin to skyrocket and the surroundings begin to change. This has happened in many neighborhoods. One of the most well known is San Francisco, where technology companies have brought in new software engineers that have caused local rents to skyrocket and people to move out of the area. However, just as importantly has been the influx of new money to Brooklyn, where local neighborhood changes have forced people from their homes, traditional music to be replaced, and old businesses to go bankrupt.

The purpose for writing this essay is to demonstrate how gentrification is shaping the Culture and identity for Halrmites from the socio-economic perspective. Harlem has changed dramatically over the last two decades due to improvement in housing stock and outside investments into the community. However, in my essay, I articulated my ideas toward the economic aspect of gentrification because gentrification is driven by class, not race. My audience would be the lower income Harlem residents who have been displaced or on the verge of displacement because their wealth is not contributing to the economy. The people who have been preserving the cultural identity of Harlem for decades now forced to leave the community. I tried my best to connect a broader audience by explaining the deteriorated housing condition of Harlem and how it led to gentrification. This will help reader

1. What are the three distinct classes of homes in the tenement houses? In what ways does each reflect the needs and resources of the renters?

Gentrification has disadvantages on housing but may lead to healthier outcomes for the residents. The Department of Health surveyed the community’s smoking, diet and physical activity, which are risks factors for a variety of health problems like high blood pressure. It was concluded that Washington Heights had 12% smokers, which is lower than New York’s average. However, 31% of community members consume multiple drinks with high sugar content on a daily basis and are less likely to perform physical activity. The rate of stroke hospitalization, is higher in Washington Heights than City rates. Healthcare providers as well as the system needs to target these trends as well as making health care more access to the community. The Affordable Health

Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project is notorious in the United States for being the most impoverished and crime-ridden public housing development ever established. Originally established as inexpensive housing in the 1940’s, it soon became a vast complex of unsightly concrete low and high-rise apartment structures. Originally touted as a giant step forward in the development of public housing, it quickly changed from a racially and economically diverse housing complex to a predominantly black, extremely poor ghetto. As it was left to rot, so to speak, Cabrini-Green harbored drug dealers, gangs and prostitution. It continued its downward spiral of despair until the mid 1990’s when the Federal Government assumed control the

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the “largest public housing authority in the nation” (Developments, 2015). In existence since 1934 (About NYCHA: NYCHA at 70, 2015), NYCHA is a low to moderate income public housing initiative consisting of 328 developments throughout all five boroughs of New York City. More than 400,000 residents benefit from these developments through the receipt of not only apartments but additional services provided by each development and New York City overall. Over recent years the NYCHA developments have been experiencing a reduction in government funding, forcing the organization to re-evaluate strategies addressing maintenance of old buildings (About NYCHA, 2015).

I do feel that this job is more of a specialized job due to the fact that licensing is required in order to sell and service insurance. Not just anyone can walk in and do the work that we do. With that being said I am requesting that my hourly wage be brought up to $15.00 per hour. I do not need to be paid

Howard Schultz was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 19, 1953. The area where Howard lived during his childhood was called the Canarsie Bayview Housing Projects. Howard came from a poor family that would work many hours to gain money to support the family 's needs as best as they could. His family finances didn 't stop Howard from becoming something later in life. He gained a scholarship to go to college where he gained a bachelor 's degree in business and marketing. He kept on working hard and improved on a pervious Starbucks company that he used to work for. With Starbucks Howard Schultz became a very successful entrepreneur.

New Hope Housing likely had strengths related to their employee development program, their effectiveness in housing people in need, and their niche for ensuring individuals who would typically be rejected housing. Some of their weaknesses likely related to their secured funding and current dependence on government funding. Some of their opportunities relate to finding solutions for permanent housing, as this is currently a struggle for the people they serve. Lastly, their threats likely also have to do with their government funding. As budgets change, money is moved around and can impact this organization for the better or for the worse.

The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) instituted eviction proceedings in state court against William lee, Barbara Hill, and Pearlie Rucker alleging that they violated their lease agreement with OHA. The OHA allege that the grandsons of Lee and Hill were caught smoking marijuana in the apartment complex parking lot, Rucker’s daughter had cocaine and crack cocaine pipe within in her possession near Rucker’s apartment, and on three separate instances within a two-month period, seventy-five-year-old Herman Walker’s caregiver and two other individuals were found with cocaine in Walkers apartment. Lee, Hill and Rucker claimed ignorance to their family’s illegal drug abuse. Walker fired his caregiver upon receiving eviction notice. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 provides that each public housing agency shall utilize leases that state any criminal activity that threatens the health, safety, or right of peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other tenants or any drug related criminal activity on or off the premises involving any member of the household, a guest or another person under the tenants control; whether the tenant is aware or unaware of their actions shall have their lease agreement terminated and evicted from the premises. OHA contends that the terms of the lease agreement that each tenant signed fully explains its drug use policy (HUD v. Rucker et al,

Can you guess what street in Brooklyn is the longest? It's so long that there is a good chance that you traverse it daily and don't event realize it.

Our next adventure was Brooklyn, NY. Although this borough was just a 20-minute train ride away I never really had many opportunities to visit it. I was excited to visit the borough because growing up I always heard that it had the best food in all of New York City. The borough is also known as Kings County and is home to nearly three million people. This makes Brooklyn the second most populous boroughs in New York. It is said that if the Borough were an independent city it would be the third most populous city in the U.S. (191).

I applaud Broadway house for the staff, which includes 4 nurses, 8 CNA’S, _Social workers, _ Mental/ Behavioral Health workers, Dietary Physicians, Admissions/ Discharge Department, 2 security guards, and an activities department that seek to provide social support. For example, the activities department provides social support through bingo, watching movies, taking trips, and celebrating birthdays. Within the organization, the staff provide are highly qualified with high education ranging from associates, bachelors, and hands on training dealing with the elderly. The basic salary ranges from $15 and up with health benefits. A close examination of Broadway House demonstrates to me that the working staff should have a higher hourly rate. I

Dogs may be a mans best friend, but their waste is not. For the residents of One Brooklyn Bridge Park Condominiums, their ongoing matter of waste layering all parts of where they call home has become an epidemic. Having to indoor walking through corridors and lobbies littered with feces, urine, and other dog waste on a daily basis has caused extreme discomfort among residents, as well as being exceedingly expensive and time consuming to clean. As a response to this persistent problem the board has decided to implement an ordinance that all dogs living in the building must have their DNA registered. Through a service called Poo Prints the board can send register each dogs DNA and send in samples of waste for DNA testing. Then the board can discover

In the novel Brooklyn the definition of home is challenged, Toibin compares a home where there is familial simplicity and ease (Ireland), one with daring heights and chances (Brooklyn, New York) and Irishness. Eve Walsh Stoddard defines Irishness as “Irish by ancestry, a member of the diaspora”(167). Toibin exemplifies how those two representations of home conflict with Eilis’ “Irishness” of that time period. Personally, I would define home as a place where you are wanted. Eilis was put into diaspora initially because of the lack of career opportunities in Ireland. She had to immigrate to Brooklyn, New York, in search of greener pastures. Eilis was moved to this with the