Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area

Associated Press ^ | December 30, 2008 | PAUL ELIAS

[grundle]

Associated Press - link only

[bcsco]

Tolerance only goes so far it seems...

[NonValueAdded]

Taking NIMBY to a new extreme.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Excerpts of AP articles are allowed.

Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area

Dec 30, 3:24 PM (ET)

By PAUL ELIAS

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.

Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.

"A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live," said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who came here five years ago from a blighted neighborhood in nearby Pittsburg. "We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here."

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[MeanWestTexan]

Pretty funny. Stupid liberals.

[icwhatudo]

Talk the talk, can’t walk the walk. Same reason libs don’t want vouchers, its not about God, its because deep down they are the most racist people on earth.

[NonValueAdded]

"One of the goals of the programs is to de-concentrate poverty," Villarreal said. "There are just some people who don't want to spend public money that way."

No, Villaunreal, they just don't like the de-concentration of crime that seems to go hand in glove. In this case, the glove fits!

Reminds me of that researcher couple who discovered their independent studies on crime flow and housing de-concentration had an astounding correlation. IIRC, the gist was when selected tenants were successfully moved out to the burbs, the programs were ramped up with relaxed standards and hilarity ensued.

[grundle]

Thanks for letting me know!

[okie01]

"We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here."

That may be. But are your neighbors doing the same?

Odds are, they're not.

What the media characterizes as "black/white" things often are not.

The primary victims of racism are those blacks who try to subscribe to "white values". They are treated with contempt by the black majority...and the white majority does not distinguish them from the antagonistic black majority.

Thanks to: the Black Leadership, the Democrat Party and the Mainstream Media.

[IronJack]

But whatever you do, don’t “profile.”

[DGHoodini]

...La Vida DemoLib... Hurray for the newest of the ACLU Pottervilles.

[skeeter]

Good post. These black communities are only about 60 years old - blacks came to CA from all over the US to work in the shipyards during WWII. It took government only that much time to destroy these societies by spoon feeding them entitlements.

I doubt very much their grandfathers would recognize their progeny today.

[Bobibutu]

Now, an interesting piece is that quietly over the past oh, 4 years or so - young multicuturals have been buying up the old sec 8s in East Oakland and rehabbing them - essentially shutting out the deadbeats from the neighborhoods.

Enough has happened that the DBs are now forced to the suburbs. Hellooo Antioch.

http://www.kcbs.com/High-Speed-Ferry-Planned-Between-Antioch-and-SF/1626780

High-Speed Ferry Planned Between Antioch and SF

Gotta love it.

[xtinct]

Antioch, CA Real Estate Market Snapshot updated Monday, December 29, 2008

Listing Type ...Number ....Median Price ....Price Change from Nov

Homes for Sale 277 .......$235,000 .........0.0% New Homes .....9 .........$489,100 .........-2.8% Foreclosures ...2,320 .....$315,000 .........-0.3%

1 year value change according to Yahoo Real Estate

$416,000 down to $200,000

Gotta love that liberal flight...

[skeeter]

Antioch is as much located in the central valley as the SF bay area, and the central valley is probably the most conservative part of the state.

[Comparative Advantage]

Why can’t they all just get along?

[GOPJ]

Blacks should be welcomed there - Bay liberals advertise themselves and tolerant. I assume that means tolerant of people not like themselves... Right?

[GOPJ]

Blacks should be welcomed there - Bay liberals advertise themselves as tolerant. I assume that means tolerant of people not like themselves... Right?

[Bobibutu]

“These black communities are only about 60 years old”

My GGfather and family moved to Oakland in 1908. The Bay Area was a paradise then - sans SF after the quake.

Even the majority of first gen blacks from the WWII xplants trashed the area.

The majority of my clients in the BA are black. Most have lost a son or daughter to violence.

Some are upstanding.

You hit it right on.

[Neoliberalnot]

San Franfreako could use a few real men to dilute out the fudge-eating molestors of little boys. The Black community will not tolerate the degenerates and rightly so.