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The Indypendent: West Harlem Pushes Back Against Columbia’s Latest Manhattanville Campus Expansion
Eric Santomauro-Stenzel Oct 15 “Columbia University, New York City’s largest landlord, is facing increased community resistance to…
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Through our research, we found that the distribution of household income has also become more unequal over the last decade. In 2010, almost half of the households in M09 had household incomes below $50,000 and only 8 percent had incomes above $200,000. By 2021, the share of households with incomes below $50,000 has declined by 10 percentage points to 38 percent and the share of households at the top with incomes above $200,000 has more than doubled to 19 percent. This indicates a profound shift in the composition of households in the area: as lower income Black, Hispanic and young families have been displaced, higher income White and Asian households have moved in
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