{"id":27419,"date":"2023-07-17T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27419"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:55:34","slug":"final-sf-reparations-report-expands-eligibility-in-these-key-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/final-sf-reparations-report-expands-eligibility-in-these-key-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Final SF reparations report expands eligibility in these key ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\">By Marcus White | Examiner staff writer |<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jul 11, 2023\u00a0Updated\u00a0Jul 12, 2023  (SFExaminer.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/7\/01\/70153430-19d0-11ee-8705-13ffad99e978\/64a3152f321a9.image.jpg?resize=400%2C267\" alt=\"San Francisco Reparations Rally\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A crowd listens to speakers at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, on March 14, 2023.AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To qualify for reparations payments, San Francisco\u2019s Black residents would need to have lived in The City for less time and more recently than initially proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-07\/AARAC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The final reparations report<\/a>, published last week, said that to be eligible, Black residents must \u2014 at a minimum \u2014 be adults who were born in San Francisco or moved to The City before 2006 who can document they lived there for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They must also have listed themselves as Black and African American on public documents for at least a decade, or been descended from a chattel slave or \u201ca free Black person prior to the end of the 19th century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s a departure from the initial draft, published in December, which had more stringent guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sf.gov\/departments\/african-american-reparations-advisory-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee<\/a>\u2018s final plan would also extend eligibility to Black residents who were victimized by law enforcement and those who have been relocated within The City\u2019s foster care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among more than 100 specific policy recommendations, the committee recommended that The City pay&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/what-san-francisco-reparations-plan-hearing-actually-means\/article_3dbe39ae-c297-11ed-a0e6-cba25f81b856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5 million in a lump sum<\/a>&nbsp;to eligible Black residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That figure attracted national attention, thanks in part to San Francisco\u2019s reputation as a liberal lightning rod and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/breakdown-of-sf-budget-after-supervisors-breed-strike-deal\/article_764f1626-16d4-11ee-99e0-6773b7aa6346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The City staring down a potential budget shortfall<\/a>&nbsp;soon after the committee submitted its draft report in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Supervisors accepted the draft but didn\u2019t adopt its recommendations earlier this year. It\u2019s unclear whether the current budget or its successors will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/sf-reparations-funding-plan-prompts-city-hall-disagreement\/article_ecb549b6-1f5d-11ee-9970-0b2732f4cc6e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provide funding for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The December draft\u2019s eligibility requirements for payments and other reparations were less remarked upon. It only required that all recipients be adults who identified as Black and African American on public documents for at least 10 years while mandating that they also meet two additional criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those criteria included demonstrating that they had lived in San Francisco for at least 13 years between 1940 and 1966, been displaced between 1954 and 1973 amid urban renewal, or experienced lending discrimination at some point between 1937 and 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed were to implement the committee\u2019s July 7 recommendations, recipients would also have to prove they or their direct ancestors experienced at least one of a number of historical harms, including displacement by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency between 1954 and 1973 or before 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That could include living in substandard or dangerous public or subsidized housing; suffering \u201cdocumented physical injury, psychological trauma\u201d or \u2014 in the case of a person with surviving direct descendants \u2014 death at the hands of law enforcement, the report noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the December draft required two additional criteria and last week\u2019s final report mandated one, there was overlap among the lists, such as a record of attendance at a San Francisco public school amid the consent decree mandating desegregation between 1983 and 2005 and documented lending discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The July 7 final report expanded the criteria to include Black residents and their direct descendants who had been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced in San Francisco for a drug-related crime between 1971 and now. The December criteria included only people who had been incarcerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how many people would be eligible for reparations under the July criteria. Still, the decadeslong decline of San Francisco\u2019s Black population offers some insight into the scope of the committee\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although San Francisco has grown by about 100,000 residents since the 1970 U.S. Census, the Census Bureau\u2019s 2022 data estimated The City had 46,000 Black residents that year \u2014 about 50,000 fewer than in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric McDonnell, the reparations committee\u2019s chair, told the Board of Supervisors in March that the committee was not charged with writing \u201ca feasibility study.\u201d Instead, the body sought to \u201cchronicle\u201d and \u201cdetermine the value\u201d of the harm The City had done to Black residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its report, the committee noted it was \u201conly empowered to make recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(The) body has no authority to implement these recommendations, and City officials are not required to implement any part,\u201d the committee wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/avatars\/a\/2e\/096\/a2e096d0-383e-11ed-8dff-03ca0c28c2ed.6e26757400633d7b219baab76e54234b.png?_dc=1665446500\" alt=\"Marcus White\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\">Marcus White<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To qualify for reparations payments, San Francisco\u2019s Black residents would need to have lived in The City for less time and more recently than initially proposed. The final reparations report, published last week, said that to be eligible, Black residents must \u2014 at a minimum \u2014 be adults who were&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/final-sf-reparations-report-expands-eligibility-in-these-key-ways\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27423,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}