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Originally Posted by Nineties Flava
Thanks for the detailed account on the situation in Asheville. What happened there with functional black neighborhoods being displaced with dysfunctional projects is what happened in San Francisco's Western Addition. Once the most thriving black business and residential district on the West Coast - sometimes referred to as the "Harlem of the West" - it became the most dangerous neighborhood in the downtown periphery and remained so for the brunt of the 80's and 90's when the iconic SF Victorians were bulldozed and replaced by high-rise and low-rise projects.
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Your timeline is off. The Western Addition Victorians were bulldozed in the 1950s and 1960s; by the 1990s the city was dismantling the post-war housing projects and rebuilding them as townhomes.