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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Segregating San Francisco



According to the Haas Institute the San Francisco Bay expanse is to a greater extent than segregated similar a shot than it was l years ago. The Haas Institute for a Fair in addition to Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley has analysed levels of racial residential segregation inwards the Bay Area since 1980 in addition to concluded that vii of the Bay Area’s ix counties accept expire to a greater extent than racially segregated.

You tin laissez passer on the axe explore the results of the Haas Institute's inquiry on the Racial Segregation inwards the San Francisco Bay Area interactive map. Census tracts on the map are colored to exhibit whether they accept a low, moderate, or high marker of segregation. The map includes a unproblematic timeline command which makes it rattling tardily to run across which neighborhoods inwards the Bay Area accept expire approximately segregated over time. The map also includes filters which allows yous to sentiment how 'isolated' a specific racial grouping is inwards each county.

The interactive map is simply 1 tool released equally business office of the Institute's 3 business office investigation into Racial Segregation inwards the San Francisco Bay Area. This investigation explored US Census information to run across how residential racial segregation has changed inwards each decade since 1980. While virtually counties inwards the Bay Area accept expire to a greater extent than segregated, counties, such equally Napa, Sonoma, in addition to Marin, are similar a shot dramatically to a greater extent than segregated than they were inwards 1980.