Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Buffalo Promise Neighborhood

Promise Neighborhood Site Profile: Buffalo Promise Neighborhood

Published: Feb 28, 2015
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
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Associated Project

Promise Neighborhoods Case Studies

Time frame: 2014-2015

Prepared for:

Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink

Authors

Kimberly Boller

The Buffalo Promise Neighborhood serves one of Buffalo’s poorest communities. The population is 76 percent minority, including 69 percent African American. More than a third of Buffalo Promise Neighborhood residents (38 percent) live in households with incomes below the federal poverty level, and 88 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals.

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