A recent groundbreaking here for an affordable housing complex is aimed at stemming the decline in black residents in San Francisco, the steepest decline of African Americans in any major U.S. city, according to the Census Bureau.
Blacks accounted for 6.5 percent of the population in 2005, down from a high of 13.4 percent in 1970, says the Census. Among other factors, closure of the city's shipyard in the early 1970s caused many blacks to leave for jobs elsewhere. Activists say blacks were left out of the new service economy.
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