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by charlesism 2682 days ago

    instead of the low-income group she's representing now. 
What do you consider "low-income"?

Google came up with this statistic for America: "The 2017 nominal median income per capita was $31,786."

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Remember, this is NYC. Compared to Manhattan and Brooklyn, Queens is a distant third in the running.

That’s changing. People priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn are gentrifying Queens and it’s causing grumbling among long time residents. People see what happened to Brooklyn and don’t want to see rents rise and neighborhoods change. Compared to most other places, most residents are renters in NYC and are exposed to pricing shifts in apartments.