The 100-plus recommendations the supervisors heard from an advisory committee on Tuesday included $5 million payouts to every eligible Black adult, personal debt and tax burden relief, guaranteed annual incomes of $97,000 and selling homes in the city for just $1.
Other ideas mentioned were adding Black history and culture curriculum in schools, free health care services for people in need and better support for Black businesses and employees.
Staff members from the African American Reparations Advisory Committee found that the city has fostered a "legacy of civic disinvestment" to Black people, especially in its "urban renewal" period, when urban planning policies from the 1950s to the 1970s aggressively tried to improve predominately Black neighborhoods like the Western Addition and Fillmore district.
"Despite the reputation of liberalism, San Francisco has consistently imposed limitations on who has access to the City's abundant wealth," reads the report. "Since its founding, Black people in San Francisco have faced significant barriers to full participation in its society and economy." The conservative-learning Hoover Institution at Stanford University estimates that non-Black families would each have to pay out nearly $600,000 for just four of the 19 financial recommendations to work.
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