Protesters vented frustration at a lack of affordable homes, closures of long-established local businesses, alleged police racism and a perceived influx of wealthier residents with no connection to the area's history.
And politicians including Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, have assailed the city and the transportation authority for a perceived influx of rats, which are attracted to loose trash deposited by subway riders.
He has perceived an influx of higher-income residents over the past five years, which he expects will contribute to a comeback once the economy recovers.
Strain, who held office in St. Tammany Parish for two decades ― the same parish that former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke calls home ― was widely criticized for remarks he made to the media in 2006 about what he perceived as an influx of African-American criminals from New Orleans.
The measures adopted were insufficient to prevent the influx of these perceived undesirables, so harsher measures were enacted.
All around him, however, he saw the vibrancy of the gay community that had established itself around Eureka Valley, the intersection of Castro and Church streets, with bars and street festivals and a constant influx of newcomers who perceived San Francisco as a kind of gay finishing school and a refuge from what Gore Vidal had once called "the entire heterosexual dictatorship of America".
Much of his perceived strength, they said, derives from an influx of Democrats from New York City over the years; Democrats now outnumber Republicans by 67,189 voters.
The perceived diminution of that neighborhood, caused in part by an influx of middle class people of all races, can feel like a loss of self, they say.
Finally, the influx of UN peacekeepers in 1993 with their perceived wealth and the creation of a large commercial sex industry in Beira, may have also contributed to the spread of HIV in the community [ 4].
While Deutch's first steps were popular with many politicians, including members of the influential Senate and House intelligence oversight committees, some veteran CIA officers were disturbed by what they perceived as the sacrifice of their fellow agents for political gain and by the influx of outsiders who were now largely responsible for the direction the agency was taking.
The continuing influx of new Internet users could carry store names that have been perceived as un-hip to victory after all.
