Although income inequality in the Metroplex is below that of America’s other largest cities—New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—when measured by neighborhoods, the greater Dallas area is the most unequal big city in America, divided by pockets of concentrated poverty and extreme affluence. One cannot miss the racial division that is at the heart of this disparity. Nationally, on average, black people make up 40 percent of the homeless population, but in Dallas, according to a census of the homeless in January 2017, that figure is 63 percent.
