Skyrocketing housing costs have driven many African Americans out of San Francisco. A new film explores that shifting racial landscape through the eyes of a native who doesn’t recognize the city he grew up in.
FILE - This Sept. 29, 1966, file photo shows part of the Fillmore District in San Francisco. Actor Jimmie Fails draws from his own story in his portrayal of a young black man navigating a shifting racial landscape in "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." His tale is a familiar one in affluent U.S. cities.
All the while, Jimmie dreams of reclaiming the grand Victorian home he says his grandfather built in the Fillmore District, before his father lost the home to drugs. Talbot, who is white, says it has become that much harder to make ends meet, even in the five years they’ve taken to make the film.that masses of millennial millionaires will take up all the city’s already scarce housing.
“All of our concerns about San Francisco becoming a super-exclusionary place have come true,” said the project’s director, Miriam Zuk.
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