San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Director Fred Blackwell is headed to Oakland for a new job as assistant city administrator.
Appointed to the Oakland post on Thursday, Blackwell leaves the San Francisco agency amid turmoil created by Gov. Jerry Brown’s successful statewide effort to ax redevelopment agencies or make them pay into state coffers to survive.
But Blackwell, an Oakland native, said that had nothing to do with his decision.
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San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Director Fred Blackwell is headed to Oakland for a new job as assistant city administrator.
Appointed to the Oakland post on Thursday, Blackwell leaves the San Francisco agency amid turmoil created by Gov. Jerry Brown’s successful statewide effort to ax redevelopment agencies or make them pay into state coffers to survive.
But Blackwell, an Oakland native, said that had nothing to do with his decision.
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From a distance, it looked as if Gov. Jerry Brown had been successful last month in making California redevelopment agencies a thing of the past. Redevelopment supporters decried the loss of projects they said couldn’t be done any other way, while opponents hailed the end to wasteful spending and public subsidies for wealthy developers.
But politics, it turns out, is never that simple.
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San Francisco’s black exodus is continuing at breakneck speed, and its Latino population is growing slowly as California’s soars. Meanwhile, Asians now make up fully one-third of The City’s population, gaining steadily on the non-Hispanic white population.
Click on the photo to the right to see more census data.
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