Housing Costs Forcing Blacks To Leave San Francisco

"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