Western Addition Displacement Reparations Bill Moves ForwardBen Malleybyline‚ Aug. 12‚ 2008Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s legislation giving descendants of those displaced by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency from the Western Addition priority in obtaining affordable housing, passed the Land Use Committee and will go before the Board of Supervisors on September 9. The legislation is nicely timed – though not intentionally – with the African American Out-migration Task Force’s report that San Francisco’s black population has dropped faster than any other large U.S. city. While many of those displaced from the Western Addition in the 1960s were Japanese, two-thirds were African American. |