San Francisco mayor sneaks through reparations bill just before Christmas that could give each black resident $5MILLION
By SONYA GUGLIARA, US REPORTER
Published: 21:33 EST, 30 December 2025 | Updated: 09:29 EST, 31 December 2025
The mayor of San Francisco discreetly approved a bill to create a fund that may eventually grant each of the city's eligible black residents $5 million in reparations.
Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed the incredibly divisive Reparations Bill just two days before Christmas.
The ordinance establishes a reparations fund, as recommended by the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC) in its 2023 report.
The legislation merely establishes the fund but does not allocate any money to it - setting up the framework for any future contributions, whether they be through the city or privately donated.
The AARAC is tasked with developing 'recommendations for repairing harm in our black communities,' according to its website. San Francisco journalist Erica Sandberg was among the first to highlight what Mayor Lurie had done.
Per the 2023 report, every eligible African-American adult in San Francisco should be handed a $5 million lump sum to 'compensate the affected population for the decades of harm that they have experienced.' Approximately 50,000 black people live in San Francisco, and the qualifying requirements remain unclear.
While this effort has captured the most attention - and sparked the most controversy - the AARAC rattled off more than 100 suggestions, including debt relief, guaranteed annual income of $97,000, debt forgiveness and city-funded homes for black people.
In 2023, the conservative public policy think-tank the Hoover Institution said the plan would cost each non-African American household in the city about $600,000 in tax dollars.
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