Sentence examples for longstanding community from inspiring English sources

The Crazy Eddie case became a cause célèbre, shattering longstanding community rules of silence and decorum.

Brixton has a history both of deprivation and tensions between incoming gentrifiers and the longstanding community.

The department said it still planned to request proposals for future vending, but added that it would consider "prior experience, longstanding community relations and the variety of cuisine offered".

The result was that the parks department announced that rather than simply award the Red Hook Park food concession to the highest bidder, it would consider a bidder's "prior experience, longstanding community relations, and the variety of cuisine offered".

"Tor has changed from being an organization run by cypherpunks to being run by American professional activists, who care more about securing funding and their job security than the cause," says one longstanding community member.

Stafford Scott, a longstanding community activist in Tottenham, said of the tactics of Trident: "They allow sharks to have guns in our community, and when the sharks pass the guns to the sprats, they arrest the sprats and lock them up.

That process – described as "token" and "superficial" in feedback from locals – resulted in plans revealed in January for a seven-storey-high commercial and apartment development, which local campaigners accused of "bleaching" Peckham's longstanding communities from the site.

The familiar gentrifying pattern both in the UK and United States has run thus for decades: artists move into an area with cheap housing and studio space, then developers follow – and longstanding communities are forced out.

And that leads to a third problem – a major complaint of leaseholders on recent regeneration schemes has been the low official valuations of their homes, a factor that has led to widespread protests and forced many owners to move miles from their estates, breaking up longstanding communities.

So today, San Francisco's neighborhoods and longstanding communities are beset by gentrification as tech workers move in.

When asked whether the recovery effort might be shortsighted, Build It Back director Amy Peterson told VICE News, "These are longstanding communities on the waterfront, generations of homeowners.