`It`s a cycle`: the disproportionate toll of homelessness on San Francisco`s African Americans
(The Guardian United States)

In a city where the homeless population is 37% black, having a job doesn´t mean you can afford housingWhen Tracey Mixon walks out her door in San Francisco´s Tenderloin neighborhood, she is more likely to meet another black person than in most places in the city.The Tenderloin neighborhood is where many of the city´s homeless services are centered, making it a hub for the unhoused as they seek out help. In a city where the black population teeters between 5% and 6%, 37% of its growing homeless population is black. `They sleep outside of my building,` Mixon, 49, said. Continue reading...