SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/SF Chronicle) - San Francisco's African-American population is vanishing, faster than that of any other large U.S. city.
Researchers tell the San Francisco Chronicle that African Americans are leaving San Francisco because of unhappiness with schools, a lack of affordable housing and the lack of jobs and black culture.
Much of the blame has been placed on the Redevelopment Agency, which intentionally drove black families and businesses from the Fillmore district in the 1960s and 1970s.
More than half the population left between 1970 and 2005, according to the census, putting it around 6.5 percent.
Nationally, African Americans make up just over 12 percent of the population.
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