It is hardly news that there is racial disparity in homelessness. According to recent statistics from King County’s All Home, African Americans are five times more likely than Caucasians to be homeless. Native Americans are seven times more likely. At Real Change, about half of our vendors are people of color, even though people of color represent less than one third of Seattle’s population. Almost a quarter of our vendors identify as African American, despite the fact that Black people represent only 7 percent of Seattleites.
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