| By Emily Badger SAN FRANCISCO — The Willie B. Kennedy Apartments are exactly what the neighbors have been wanting: new affordable housing in a market with little of it, homes for seniors in a city flush with young tech, real investment in a historically black part of town that has long been losing its black population. But residents of San Francisco's … | | |  | | | | The latest economic and domestic policy from Wonkblog | | | | |  As San Francisco has become the most expensive city in the country, its African-American population has shrunk. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) By Emily Badger SAN FRANCISCO — The Willie B. Kennedy Apartments are exactly what the neighbors have been wanting: new affordable housing in a market with little of it, homes for seniors in a city flush with young tech, real investment in a historically black part of town that has long been losing its black population. But residents of San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood won't be prioritized when the wait list opens today for the 98 studios and one-bedroom apartments for low-income seniors here. Last year San Francisco passed a law that would reserve 40 percent of units in new affordable housing projects for people from the communities surrounding them. It gave hope to residents of this rapidly changing neighborhood that they'd have the first chance to live in the new building, financed in part with federal money. This week, however, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the plan violates fair-housing requirements, a defeat for an idea that officials in San Francisco hoped could be used as a bulwark against gentrification, here and in other increasingly unaffordable cities. The decision pits a civil-rights law written decades ago to protect minorities from discrimination against a city trying to stem their displacement. And it heightens debate over how far cities can go in trying to maintain racial diversity. | | | Read the rest on Wonkblog.
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