Munonyedi “Mun” Clifford of the New York City Legal Aid Society has been a housing attorney in New York City for more than a decade, but she came into the job with plenty of first-hand experience of how greed and rapid gentrification in the city can squeeze low-income residents.
Clifford’s family moved from Nigeria to a modest apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section in 1997, when she was still a young teenager. The area had yet to evolve into the trendy—and, for some, unaffordable—neighborhood it is today. But even then, her mother still had to work hard to make ends meet and pay rent on time.
