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SF is not California. Moreover, it's not even the 'Bay Area' - it's a tiny, unrepresentative spot of 700 000 people. Also - 'homelessness' is not the same thi

SF is not California. Moreover, it's not even the 'Bay Area' - it's a tiny, unrepresentative spot of 700 000 people. Also - 'homelessness' is not the same thing as 'under the poverty line'. California is 33% latino, and less than 7% African American. African Americans might be more likely to be 'in poverty', sadly, but there are nearly 5x more Latino Americans than African Americans in California. This does not even include a large population undocumented people, who are far more likely to be Latino than Black. Here is the data: https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf In the US, Latino Americans are just slightly less likely to be 'in poverty' than African Americans. In California, with a 5x more population, that would very roughly boil down to 5x more Latino Americans in poverty than African Americans. Hence my point.

Spooky23 10y ago
From NYC: "African-American and Latino New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness. Approximately 58 percent of New York City homeless shelter residents are African-American, 31 percent are Latino, 7 percent are white, less than 1 percent are Asian-American, and 3 percent are of unknown race/ethnicity." You also need to be very careful with context and analysis of "latino". Statistically, Latino is an overlay term representing cultural origin. Many African Americans identify as Latino.
- edblarney 10y ago
  ? Again, NYC is not America. Again, we're talking about poverty rates, not homeless rates. Yes, I understand 'Latino' is not always central/south American in the classic sense, but fyi - Latino's are far more likely to be classified as 'White' than 'African American' - i.e. Spanish, Cubans etc.