Talk:Fillmore District, San Franciscoの英語

As I recall the Western Addition is a formal district in San Francisco, Ca -- one of its largest -- west of Van Ness, which comprises the Fillmore proper. Rather than being a "twin" neighborhood, it was a superset of the informally made up "Fillmore" (or "Mo"). The Fillmore included the Hayes Valley projects, the "Pink Palace," and many other clusters of low-income Section 8 housing. The Western Addition included these, and then some, e.g., the areas north of Geary Boulevard, which were not as poor and did not have as many African-Americans. Japantown was in this category. It was a diverse neighborhood. Many Japanese settled there before WWII, and after the internment phase, several job-seekers from all over the nation, predominantly the South, and with many African-Americans, came to the SF Bay Area to work in defense-related industry -- the shipyards at Hunters Point, Oakland, and Richmond. Many of these folks began to live in the places left empty by the interned Japanese. As this article so correctly states, the big "Redevelopment Agency bust" nearly eviscerated the neighborhood, forcing its poor residents to move to cheap housing in the East Bay, and other lower income SF neighborhoods like the Point, Bayview, Vis Valley, OMI, Potrero Hill, the Mission, etc. The Western Addition stretched as far west as Divis and beyond, and in the 1960s Divis was considerably different, economics-wise, etc., compared to some of the projects closer to Fillmore street. This is written in haste. I'll touch this up later.