San Francisco mayor sneaks through reparations bill just before Christmas that could give each black resident $5MILLION

San Francisco’s mayor has cautiously approved a bill to create a fund that could eventually provide $5 million in compensation to each of the city’s eligible black residents.

Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed the incredibly divisive Reparations Bill just two days before Christmas.

The ordinance creates a Reparations Fund as recommended by the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC). 2023 report.

The legislation merely creates the fund but does not allocate any money to it; It sets the framework for future contributions, whether through the city or privately donated.

AARAC is tasked with developing “recommendations to repair the harm in our black communities.” website.

According to the 2023 report, every African American adult in San Francisco should be given a collective $5 million to ‘compensate for decades of harm experienced by the affected population.’

While that effort has attracted the most attention and sparked the most controversy, AARAC has listed more than 100 proposals, including debt relief, a guaranteed annual income of $97,000, debt forgiveness and city-financed housing for people of color.

Conservative public policy think tank in 2023 Hoover Institution He said the plan would cost every non-African American household in the city about $600,000 in taxes.

Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signs divisive Reparations Bill two days before Christmas

However, Lurie told the Daily Mail that this was not the case, noting that the city’s finances were in dire straits.

“Communities across the city have been working with the government for several years to acknowledge decades of harm to the black community in San Francisco,” Lurie wrote.

‘While this process largely predates my administration, I am signing legislation to create this fund in recognition of the work of many San Franciscans and the unanimous support of the Board of Supervisors.’

But Lurie said the city is bracing for a $1 billion budget shortfall next year.

‘This means setting key priorities for funding so that we can continue to deliver these services well,’ he explained.

‘Given these historic financial challenges, the city does not have the resources to devote to this fund.’

He said his administration has always been open to external donors, so ‘if there is private funding that can be legally allocated to this fund, we are prepared to ensure that the funding reaches those who are eligible for it.’

As Lurie explained the bill’s purpose to the Daily Mail, his sly passage caught the attention of critics.

Controller Shamann Walton drafted Compensation Bill to establish fund

Opinion reporter Erica Sandberg called out the summer’s No Kings protests and called the city government hypocritical

Conservative activist Richie Greenberg criticized the fund as an ‘extremely disappointing decision’ towards X.

One an episode of his podcastDeclared ‘compensation scheme’ ‘ridiculously illegal, irresponsible, illegal’ [and] ‘It’s unconstitutional.’

Opinion journalist Erica Sandberg criticized the decision as hypocritical.

“In the wake of the large-scale No Kings protests in the summer of 2025 denouncing the authoritarian policies of the Trump administration, it is hypocritical for local officials to make such a unilateral decision that clearly contradicts public sentiment,” he wrote bottom stack.

Over the summer, No Kings protests broke out across the country against Donald Trump and his policies.

The San Francisco chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) publicly opposed the city’s administration of the Reparations Fund.

Rev. Amos Brown, president of the NAACP chapter, said the 2023 reparations plan gives black citizens false hope.

Although the organization said it supported cash payments, it described the lump sum payment of $5 million as an “arbitrary number” in a press release at the time.

African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC) 2023 report details a compensation plan

Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed, also a Democrat, had concerns about direct cash payments at the city level.

He believed that reparations should be handled at the federal level.

About a week before Lurie signed off on the plan, the city’s Board of Supervisors voted in favor of it.

“This is certainly different than asking the city to raise dollars to support compensation recommendations,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wrote the ordinance. alphabet 7.

‘It will take some time. We need to create a melting pot and then of course find the right criteria for how to prioritize which recommendations to address first. But this is an important first step.’

Supporters of the bill say it aims to correct investments in predominantly black neighborhoods that pushed the community away from the area under the guise of urban renewal from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Daily Mail has reached out to ARAC for comment.