Blue City Mayor Secretly Signs Bill That Could Give Black Residents $5 Million Each

San Francisco’s mayor quietly signed off on one of the most explosive pieces of legislation in city history just days before Christmas, greenlighting a framework that could one day hand eligible Black residents $5 million each in reparations.

Mayor Daniel Lurie approved the Reparations Bill with little public fanfare two days before the holiday, authorizing the creation of a city-sanctioned reparations fund without committing a single dollar to it.

The ordinance establishes the fund recommended by San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee in its 2023 report. While the legislation itself does not allocate money, it creates the structure for future funding, whether from the city or private donors.

The advisory committee is charged with developing “recommendations for repairing harm in our black communities,” according to its website. San Francisco journalist Erica Sandberg was among the first to flag Lurie’s low-profile approval of the measure.

The 2023 report proposes that every eligible African American adult in San Francisco receive a laughable $5 million lump-sum payment to “compensate the affected population for the decades of harm that they have experienced.” Roughly 50,000 Black residents live in the city, though eligibility standards have not been clearly defined.

That proposal has sparked intense backlash, but it is only one of more than 100 recommendations issued by the committee. Those ideas include debt relief, debt forgiveness, city-funded housing and a guaranteed annual income of $97,000 for Black residents.

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In 2023, the conservative Hoover Institution warned that implementing the plan would effectively saddle each non-African American household in San Francisco with about $600,000 in taxes.

Lurie pushed back on that estimate, telling the Daily Mail the city’s dire financial picture makes such spending impossible.

“For several years, communities across the city have been working with the government to acknowledge the decades of harm done to San Francisco’s black community,” Lurie wrote.

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

The mayor emphasized that San Francisco is staring down a $1 billion budget deficit next year.

“That means identifying key priorities for funding so we can continue delivering those services well,” he explained.

“Given these historic fiscal challenges, the city does not have resources to allocate to this fund.”

Lurie added that his administration remains open to private money, saying that “if there is private funding that can be legally dedicated to this fund, we stand ready to ensure that funding gets to those who are eligible for it.”

Even with those assurances, critics seized on the timing and quiet approval of the bill, accusing City Hall of slipping a highly controversial policy through while residents were distracted by the holidays.

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