(Palm Springs, CA) — Palm Springs, California is close to approving a 27-million-dollar reparations deal with Black and Latino families forced from their homes in the 1960s. The deal goes before the city council for a final vote today. It would make Palm Springs one of the first cities in the country to make such a deal after a similar agreement in Evanston, Illinois in 2021.
Hundreds of families were forced out of a neighborhood known as Section 14, their homes demolished to make way for commercial development. It’s far less than the two-billion-dollars survivors and descendants had originally sought. Under the deal, around 10-million-dollars would be put into a first-time homebuyer assistance program and a land trust for affordable housing.
