stages as there have been real estate companies coming in trying to buy up properties and raising the property value prices and now the neighborhood has been rezoned under Bill de Blasio's administration, an influx of luxury housing developments have been building up the area. There have been tactics by real estate agencies going around knocking on doors of homeowners to persuade them to sell the properties to them and in often cases they would resell them to other companies for a higher price. There have been a lot of oppositions from the local residents whom are overwhelmingly Black and Latino residents and accusing these real estate companies of being racists and trying to gentrify them out of the neighborhood in order to bring in more wealthier White residents.To a certain extent, history is somewhat repeating itself in the neighborhood again comparatively to during the 1960s when the neighborhood was still overwhelmingly populated by Italian and Jewish and other White residents and businesses and Blockbusting was immensely taking place to encourage as many of the White residents to sell their properties to real estate companies, which would then resell or re-rent them to Blacks and Puerto Ricans for a higher price to benefit a profit, which contributed to the rapid shift of the population to mainly Blacks and Puerto Ricans as well this also contributed the new socioeconomic problems to happen in the later years. The only difference now since the 2010s is they are attempting to re-transition the neighborhood back to being populated by whites. Demographics Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of East New York was 91,958, an increase of 8,683 (10.4%) from the 83,275 counted in 2000. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of . The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 63.6% (58,453) African American, 3.0% (2,764) Asian, 1.3% (1,240) White, 0.3% (291) Native American, 0.0% (38) Pacific Islander, 0.7% (683) from other races, and 1.3% (1,237) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29.6% (27,252) of the population. The entirety of Community Board 5 had 181,300 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 78.6 years. This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 27% are between the