Is this because the affluence of blacks in this area is somehow underrepresented/undercut by specific policy? I mean... what is the corollary to this? Is there a specific reason blacks are moving out or can’t afford these neighborhoods other than liberal policy that doesn’t seem to affect other races so much? Is there racism inherent that supposedly keeps blacks out? I’m curious about Sowell’s reasoning, because it seems as though there are some underpinnings here that aren’t being fleshed out properly.
If I understand your question correctly, the disparity is largely because black households’ income averages roughly 2/3 that of white households’ (nationally, that is — I don’t know about SF or CA, specifically), so black families would be less able to afford higher home prices and rents.
You are confused here because nobody is saying the buzz words “ghetto,” economically depressed, blighted or low cost housing for lower income groups of people...
Blacks are being forced out of San Francisco, and out of other communities on the San Francisco peninsula, by high housing prices.At one time, housing prices in San Francisco were much like housing prices elsewhere in the country. But the building restrictions— and outright bans— resulting from the political crusades of environmentalist zealots sent housing prices skyrocketing in San Francisco, San Jose and most of the communities in between. Housing prices in these communities soared to about three times the national average.
I hear you. If there’s an argument for racism here, of deliberately excluding blacks, I missed it.
“Is there a specific reason blacks are moving out or can’t afford these neighborhoods other than liberal policy that doesn’t seem to affect other races so much?”
No. It was liberal policy that kept them in the slums of the Fillmore, that destroyed the black family, that killed appalling numbers of black babies, and that derailed the trend begun in the fifties of upward mobility for blacks. (Dr. Sowell explains all those things brilliantly.)
Further, it is a fact that sodomites tend to have more disposable income than married couples, which also contributed to the inflation of property values in Sodom on the Bay.
“I’m curious about Sowell’s reasoning, because it seems as though there are some underpinnings here that aren’t being fleshed out properly.”
Sowell doesn’t kowtow to liberal shibolleths.
There is another possibility.
It could be that the black population found living in San Francisco to be so abominable and at odds to their values they just got sick of it all and left.
Economics is not the problem.
San Francisco is the problem
(plus.....the big’un is coming)