How can San Francisco support its most vulnerable Black residents?

SF BayView:

San Francisco’s African American community has shrunk by half since 1970. Of the families that remain, nearly a fifth live in public housing or get a rental subsidy. Now, a city effort is turning public housing into a key front in the battle to improve educational outcomes for African American kids.

At a community room at the Alice Griffith housing project just after sunrise, a bunch of squealing kids are sprawled on exercise mats, working on their abs. They’re at a before-school program and all of them live in the project’s new blocks of pastel-colored apartments – some directly above this room.

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