Some old townships have seen rapid development since 1994, with, for instance, wealthy, and middle-income areas growing up in parts of Soweto, Chatsworth, etc.

Mr. Branch won most of the middle-income, homeowner areas and precincts with large numbers of elderly people, if only by slim margins.

It is also something of a harbinger of more residential development to come in middle-income areas, according to personnel in the borough's engineering office.

It gives a total of about 2,000 poor families in five cities, including New York, housing vouchers to relocate to middle-income areas.

Picfair Village is primarily a middle-income area with a moderate African-American majority.

It's turned from what might have been called a lower-income area to a middle-income area.

The districts that have applied are mostly in lower- to middle-income areas.

Housing can be grouped into three broad categories: the low-income, middle-income and high-income areas.

Within this general area however are many stable, mixed and middle-income areas of diverse populations.

He offers Nassau County, a largely suburban, largely middle-income area, as a plausible candidate.