San Francisco mayor has ‘no plans’ to support request for $50 million reparations office
Asher Notheis
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The mayor of San Francisco has “no plans” to support a request for $50 million from the city’s reparations committee.
The request from San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which is working on reparations for black residents in the city, asked in March for an appropriation of $50 million to establish an “Office of Reparations” to begin finding eligible participants for the reparations.
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When San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, was asked by San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton if she would support the request, she said she had no plans to support it, according to the San Francisco Standard.
“I know the committee is still working over the next couple of months to complete and issue the final report, and I look forward to reviewing those recommendations once they are finalized and make it clear in regards to my support at that time,” Breed said.
The current proposal by the reparations advisory committee calls for $5 million payments along with other benefits for black residents of San Francisco, including the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, a guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 for the next 250 years, and homes in the city for $1 per family. The committee argues the proposals are necessary to remedy past injustices against black residents of the city.
In March, Walton requested funding for the San Francisco Attorney’s Office to create an office of reparations under the office’s Human Rights Commission. Walton said the work of the reparations office would start “almost immediately” if the $50 million request is approved.
The proposal has drawn both attention and criticism from across the country, including from the city’s NAACP chapter, which argued that instead of issuing $5 million payments to residents, the city should invest in education, “economic empowerment,” public and affordable housing, healthcare, and a “black center of town” in the Fillmore Heritage Center.
The mayor’s comment on having no plans to support the money for a reparations office comes shortly after Richie Greenberg, a vocal critic of the city’s reparations plan, served a cease-and-desist demand on the offices of the Board of Supervisors on Monday.
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Greenberg argued that the state’s Civil Procedure Code § 526a allows any taxpayers in either the city or county of San Francisco to bring a lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco for the violation of the U.S. and California constitutions if the reparations plan is enacted, according to the California Globe.
“Our mayor has a race problem,” he added. “She’s creating a race problem — it is unlawful and unconstitutional.”