Daniel Lurie creates San Francisco reparations fund for Black residents

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The mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a "Reparations Fund" that would in the future grant every of the town's eligible Black residents as much as $5 million in reparations for alleged historic discrimination and displacement.

The ordinance, which was handed by the Board of Supervisors earlier this month, was signed by Democrat Mayor Daniel Lurie two days earlier than Christmas. It establishes the authorized framework for the fund however doesn't allocate funds or assure funds. The fund might be financed with personal donations, foundations and different non-city sources.

Any taxpayer-funded reparations payouts would require separate laws, an recognized funding supply and mayoral approval. Lurie instructed Fox Information Digital that no taxpayer cash could be paid into the potential pot, given the town's $1 billion funds deficit.

"I used to be elected to drive San Francisco’s restoration, and that’s what I’m centered on each day," Lurie mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital. "We aren't allocating cash to this fund — with a historic $1 billion funds deficit, we're going to spend our cash on making the town safer and cleaner."

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Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks on steps of Metropolis Corridor in San Francisco, California earlier this 12 months. The ordicnace was signed by Lurie two days earlier than Christmas with none public announcement from the mayor. (Picture by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)

"The Reparations Plan outlines quite a lot of strategies to offer restitution, compensation and rehabilitation to people who're Black and/or descendants of a chattel enslaved particular person and have skilled a confirmed hurt in San Francisco," the ordinance reads, partly.

The ordinance particularly cites a 2023 coverage report and advice doc produced by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), a city-appointed advisory committee.

The report, which is nonbinding, studied harms to Black residents and proposed treatments, together with a advice of a $5 million cost. Round 46,000 Black residents dwell in San Francisco, in line with U.S. Census information.

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San Francisco's Metropolis Corridor in California. (Istock)

It argued that Black San Franciscans are victims of many years of city-driven "residential displacement" and "racial discrimination," notably in the course of the city renewal period — the interval from the mid-Forties by means of the Nineteen Seventies.

"The Metropolis and County of San Francisco and its companies ought to subject a proper apology for previous harms and commit to creating substantial ongoing, systemic and programmatic investments in Black communities to handle historic harms," the report states in its govt abstract.

It proposed that the town "[p]rovide a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to every eligible particular person."

Historic victorian-style houses, a few of which had been as soon as owned by Black residents, stand in entrance of the San Francisco skyline, with the Metropolis Corridor rotunda seen. (PHILIP PACHECO/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

The report additionally beneficial a assured annual revenue tied to space median revenue and the creation of new city agencies , together with an Workplace of Reparations, to manage packages. It additionally referred to as for main housing interventions, equivalent to rental help, homeownership assist and city-backed funds to buy property alongside Black enterprise corridors, in addition to multi-million-dollar investments in Black-owned companies.

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The California Legislature has tried to go particular reparations payments however has up to now failed to take action. A number of proposals stalled or had been rejected after the state’s Reparations Job Pressure, which was arrange in 2020 to check and suggest reparations proposals.