These maps track The City’s dwindling African American community across decades
But diversity doesn’t cure segregation. And San Francisco is still plenty segregated.
That trend is vividly depicted in San Francisco’s Fillmore, loosely located between Turk Street and Geary Boulevard, mostly contained inside of what is now the Western Addition neighborhood. There were about 22,000 Black San Franciscans living in the Fillmore in the 1970s, accounting for almost 60% of the neighborhood’s population.
By the time The City’s redevelopment projects were completed in the 1980s, the new houses were too expensive for most of the former residents to move back into. San Diego arrival won’t deter The City’s panda pursuit, Breed says San Francisco Mayor London Breed said The City will “”continue to advocate at every opportunity” to bring the lovable black-and-white bears here
He said that strategy has largely failed. The Othering and Belonging Institute found that racial disparities — defined as differences in outcomes among racial groups — between the Black and White communities over the last 50 years mostly haven't changed.
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