JUST IN: San Francisco supervisors open to reparations proposal for Black people
Yes, but:
The board's acceptance of the draft does not signal what specific recommendations from the plan it will ultimately approve.The reparations committee will continue to meet monthly before submitting its final proposal in June. The Board of Supervisors has scheduled the next reparations hearing for Sept. 19, but it's unknown whether a vote will occur at that time.
The city's redevelopment of the Fillmore shuttered 883 businesses, displaced 4,729 households and damaged the lives of nearly 20,000 people, according to the reparations committee.All of the supervisors spoke favorably of the plan, including District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who said the city needs "to reckon with and ultimately apologize for what those who preceded us did knowingly.
"It is not a matter of whether or not there is a case for reparations for Black people in San Francisco, it is a matter of what reparations will and should look like," District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the hearing.
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