Housing Costs Forcing Blacks To Leave San Francisco

As housing costs rise to record levels, African-Americans are leaving San Francisco "in droves" according to Census figures.

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August 2, 2001, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"African-Americans ... are leaving this city in droves. Over the last 10 years, as public housing and low-income projects have been torn down and as rents and house prices climbed to record levels, African-Americans have left San Francisco like no other city.... Other cities have had notable declines in their black populations over the last decade ? Washington, for example.But blacks in other cities appear to be migrating to the suburbs in a pattern of upward mobility. In San Francisco, many are leaving because they have no choice. Gentrification during the dot-com boom gave the city the distinction as the most expensive in the country."

Thanks to Jennifer Lobenhofer

FULL STORY: Blacks Hit by Housing Costs Leave San Francisco Behind

Thursday, August 2, 2001 in The New York Times

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