San Francisco mulls reparation plans including $5m for Black residents

Proposals also include financing debt forgiveness, guaranteed annual incomes for families and homes in the city for $1

San Francisco lawmakers will consider a range of options on Tuesday to provide reparations to Black people for decades of racist treatment by the city government, from providing reparation tax credits to helping finance debt forgiveness for Black families.

The proposals will be presented at a city meeting today, though there is no immediate timeline for action. The most prominent and controversial proposal is a “one time lump sum payment” of $5m to all eligible Black people, a number that the chair of the city’s reparations committee called “actually low when you consider the harm”.