The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Visualizes the Loss of Black Population in the Bay Area

As Census and American Community Survey data reveals, the African American population has been steadily decreasing in both San Francisco and Alameda County, while the general population in both increases. As evictions, foreclosures, rent increase, demolitions, development projects, and other forces of gentrification push out the African American community from the Bay Area, countless lives, networks, legacies, systems of social support, and cultural traditions are also lost.

Significantly, we have seen the African American population drop from 15% to 12% in Alameda County, 13% to 6% in San Francisco, and 14% to 10% combined.

California has its own long history of racial segregation, including in the Progressive Era. Informal discrimination was codified by "redlining" practices, which determined in part where African Americans could live (see National Housing Act of 1934).

As our SFPD and OPD murder maps reveal, disproportionately African Americans are killed by police in both counties. See http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/murdermap.html and http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/opd.html for more.

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