In New York, Mayor Bloombergs policies are praised for a major decrease in crime. Many of his supporters say higher housing costs are evidence of a citys economic progress.
But in Manhattans Chinatown those rent increases have already pushed many people out. Numbers from the Census suggest that about 17 percent of the Chinese people in the area have been displaced since 2000. That is about 6,000 people who have left the neighborhood.
Sun Meirong has been living in Manhattans Chinatown since she first came to the United States from Fuzhou in 1990. She owns a restaurant near the center of Chinatown. She says she has seen a large decrease in customers, mostly Chinese immigrants.
In the past, during the thanksgiving holiday for example, there were so many people on this street outside. You could not walk. But in the past three years nobody is on the street anymore. This is the change we see in Chinatown.
Sun says that many of her neighbors have been forced from their homes after building owners decided to repair and modernize the buildings.
Houses have been renovated and after that they just get sold to developers without considering to give it to the people who were living there in the first place: immigrants. The U.S. is a country of immigrants, but many immigrants get here and do not have a place to live or cannot afford it.
For Sun, what is happening in Chinatown opposes the very ideals that America stands for.
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