A STUDY RELEASED last week on Black homeownership in the Bay Area shows the region lost thousands of African American households after 2010.

The report, “Black Communities and the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis” by the Bay Area Equity Atlas, finds that the region lost more than 5,000 Black homeowners from 2010 to 2020 and that Black renters and homeowners were displaced from historically African American communities during that same period.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.