Posted on 08/09/2008 10:28:26 PM PDT by SmithL
African Americans are leaving San Francisco because of substandard schools, a lack of affordable housing and the dearth of jobs and black culture, according to a report by a committee looking into the exodus.
The African American Out-migration Task Force, put together by the mayor's office last year to figure out what can be done to preserve the city's remaining black population and cultivate new residents, presented its findings at a public hearing Thursday called by Supervisor Chris Daly.
San Francisco's black population has dropped faster than any other large U.S. city's. It went from 13.4 percent in 1970 to an estimated 6.5 percent in 2005, according to the census. Nationally, African Americans make up 12.1 percent of the population.
Much of the blame has been placed on the Redevelopment Agency, which intentionally drove black families and businesses from the Fillmore district in the 1960s and 1970s.
Many residents who attended the nearly four-hour meeting live in the Bayview-Hunters Point area and expressed concern about the redevelopment project now under way there, saying it will continue to reduce the city's dwindling African American population.
Much of the anger was placed on Lennar Corp., the developer building 1,600 houses at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Residents say they are being pushed out, so the city can gentrify the area that is the last black neighborhood.
"In San Francisco, we run the risk of losing the entire black population," said Minister Christopher Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. "There should be emergency hearings, because this is an emergency."
In San Francisco, the number of African Americans in very-low-income households has increased, the number of black-owned businesses has declined, and African Americans have the lowest home ownership rates, according to the report.
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if that is not SanFran, so be it....
its the false loyalty that many inner city blacks have to their "hoods" that keeps them from finding safe havens....they deserve to go where they want to, where they can afford, where they have friends, etc.....
The simple answer is that the Liberals drove them out, but that would be the truth, and we can’t have that, can we?
>The simple answer is that the Liberals drove them out, but that would be the truth, and we can’t have that, can we?<
Yup. San Fran ain’t that tolerant, believe me. The feel-good doctrine by the libs is just one big smoke-screen.
Ethnic cleansing? Call the U.N.!
If they want to preserve segregated neighborhoods they should put up a fence. Otherwise, what’s wrong with people choosing where they want to live?
weren’t they complaining a few weeks ago that families with children were leaving?
How does one get a derivative of Christ and Mohammad in the same name?
Where is it written in stone, that a city must have a certain percent of black people. The decrease in S.F. proves only one thing to me, the black people are smarter than the feel good warm fuzzy libs.
Where is it written in stone, that a city must have a certain percent of black people. The decrease in S.F. proves only one thing to me, the black people are smarter than the feel good warm fuzzy libs.
As I recall, the city gov’t in S.F. had a similar task force set up to study the movement of middle class families with children out of S.F. and how to stop that outflow.
S.F. is very expensive, and the social climate is liberal and more tolerant than many would like to various “alternate” type lifestyles. If a place is expensive, and the social/political views of critical masses of people are too far out there for most people, then most people will vote with their feet.
The middle-class children exodus seems to have slowed down this year, as the incoming Kindergarten classes have increased substantially, and it seems the increase was in those groups. I think its a consequence of the property markets collapsing in the suburbs, as it was the typical scenario to have mostly white and Asian couples renting in SF move out when the first kids came.
This may be a temporary blip, but who knows.
“If a place is expensive, and the social/political views of critical masses of people are too far out there for most people, then most people will vote with their feet.”
Therefore “The simple answer is that the Liberals drove them out...”
Good question!
This is nothing new. For the past 30 years the trust-fund hippies have been pricing blacks, families, and just in general people who work for a living out of San Francisco via rent fixing (making housing so “affordable” there isn’t any), property taxes, fees on absolutely everything, etc.
The number of blacks and children drop every year. But don’t worry, San Francisco doesn’t need blacks since it’s so full of an even higher-ranking kind of “diversity”.
First lefties drove out working class whites, and now they turn on lefty supporting blacks.
Good. Maybe the ones leaving are becoming conservatives in the process
single, hetero women left years ago...
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