[lightgreen]

> racist applications of eminent domain used to remove "undesirable" (a euphemism for black) neighborhoods

I'm sure white trash neighbourhoods were not welcome there as well.

Anyway, I'm not ready to continue conversation where everything is considered racist, sorry.

[klyrs]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/living/article/Anti-Asian-and-an...

Only, there are still racially restrictive covenants on many properties to this day. Yes, in San Francisco. Thankfully, they're unenforceable, but the evidence is writ large on the legal system. And no, they didn't forbid white people from living anywhere -- if you've got reams of evidence to contradict that, show it.

Deeper dive into the history:

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/system/tdf/haasinstitute_...

Frisco isn't special here, for example, Seattle's timeline (including these covenants still being on the books) is pretty much the same

https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants.htm

[olliej]

The Bay Area (the area this article is about) was heavily redlined, and almost all (maybe actually all?) uses of eminent domain for 580 and the MacArthur maze in the Bay Area were in predominantly black neighborhoods.