other community. it is about 16% or 17%. seniors you re very different. here there are very much influenced by immigration. they are much poorer and likely to be over the age of 80 and 75. they are less educated. 20% don t have a high-school degree. you can see them as a remnant of an earlier economic era. you could have a middle-class life in san francisco. speaking of seniors, i want to take a moment to talk about all the ramifications of their being so few children in the city. this shows in-home support services and compares san francisco to the 10 largest counties. this is people in support services, a program that provides care so that seniors and persons with disabilities can stay at home. we are more than double the next highest county. part of what that is is we have older persons that grew up here, raised their children, and their children can t afford to raise their families here. they have moved to other communities, east bay, ariz., other states. it creates a tre
continues to develop the long- term planning process to think about the need for parks or there is rejuvenation, landscapes, and beautification, but a place where the kids can play. it is a story that has been before you many times, but it is investment. if we are going to do the mission that families need us to do, the city is committed to keeping families and keeping them happy, healthy, and thriving, as a matter of public policy, we have to make a decision to invest more. which of 12% of the city s land, less than 2% of the general fund. we have been asked to reduce our spending over the last seven years. the public demand has not dissipated. and if we want to keep the families that we have, and we have more families that need and demand the services, it is only going to increase. i would much rather see haunt and investment in playgrounds and public recreation. it is critical. the public agrees. 82% of the respondents said that the city s recreation and park department he
there was a survey of seniors across 12 cities in the united states, only 24% of seniors have a child within 20 minutes of them. in most cities, it was over 40%. there were tremendous implications for the support systems. we talked about the flight of families in terms of ethnicity. put it in the broader context here of the city s history. we have a tremendous influx of african-americans during the war. it started to decline about 1980. and especially the chinese rising at the same time. if you think about ethnic groups, often sociologists think about them competing for scarce resources. for most cities, it would be described as latino and african- american. when you look at the home buying patterns, even in 2000, only a bare majority were african american anymore. you can see the asian, pacific islanders moving into the southeast part of the city. this breaks down race and ethnicity by age group. the bar is miners, the dark one on the right would be seniors. whites tend to b
there were tremendous implications for the support systems. we talked about the flight of families in terms of ethnicity. put it in the broader context here of the city s history. we have a tremendous influx of african-americans during the war. it started to decline about 1980. and especially the chinese rising at the same time. if you think about ethnic groups, often sociologists think about them competing for scarce resources. for most cities, it would be described as latino and african- american. when you look at the home buying patterns, even in 2000, only a bare majority were african american anymore. you can see the asian, pacific islanders moving into the southeast part of the city. this breaks down race and ethnicity by age group. the bar is miners, the dark one on the right would be seniors. whites tend to be an old population. african americans are younger. asian/pacific islanders have the largest groups across the board but they also have a large number of seniors.
with fewer resources, but those are aunts and uncles and grandparents who live in antioch, and they have less social support. isolation is the second biggest factor after poverty for child abuse in the city. if you think about any negative outcome, youth violence, school dropouts, whatever, it is always aggravated when a neighborhood or community is homogenous in poverty. when there is only low-income people who live there. when it is not a healthy, diverse community. this is a very acute pressure for low-income families in san francisco. this is income standards for families. the show s the top level this shows what the top level is. the next is the federal poverty level for family of three. the next one comes from a study done by the center for community economic development. it shows what it would cost to for that same family unit to have a no-frills lifestyle in san francisco. the yellow bar is the median income for single parents with two kids in san francisco. you hav