1.   And as the neighborhood improves, affordability drops.

2.   But she has seen the neighborhood improve.

3.   His is a free-enterprise approach that envisions little government involvement and assumes that neighborhoods will improve naturally as commerce takes root.

4.   The neighborhood improved only marginally and to this day she parks her van in front of the living room window, to make drive-bys more difficult.

5.   The study, by a Columbia University professor and a nonprofit housing agency, says that as neighborhoods improve, longtime residents tend to stick around.

6.   They may benefit from reasonable leases at the beginning, but often find that rents soar when the neighborhood improves.

7.   Yeshitela would still prefer to see black neighborhoods improve without aid from the outside.

8.   As she sipped a cappuccino at a Starbucks in a new shopping center, she said the neighborhood is improving.