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A California county that faced a $91 million budget gap this year has approved a sweeping reparations plan for black residents that calls for major changes to housing, education, healthcare and criminal justice \u2014 while leaving the door open to cash payments.<\/p>\n

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The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on June 30 to accept the comprehensive plan following more than two years of research and community engagement.<\/p>\n

The plan largely centers on institutional and policy changes rather than immediately handing out direct payments, though officials have not ruled out eventually putting cash in the hands of eligible residents.<\/p>\n

The ambitious push comes after Alameda County officials warned during this year\u2019s budget process that they were confronting a projected $91 million gap for fiscal year 2026-27.<\/p>\n

The county ultimately adopted a balanced $6.7 billion budget in June amid what officials described as significant fiscal challenges.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Nate Miley\u2014who represents District Four and was a leading force behind the reparations initiative\u2014told Fox News that cash payments remain among the possibilities under consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t ruled it out. It\u2019s one of the items in the action plan. It\u2019s not the only item.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if it were the only item, or if it was a priority item, it might be more challenging,\u201d Miley said. \u201cBut I do think there\u2019s some low-hanging fruit \u2014 some immediate things we can do, and some things we\u2019re already doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then there might be the more challenging things. A cash payment might be one of those more challenging things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reparations framework calls for expanding affordable housing, supporting black economic development, increasing investments in education and healthcare, and pursuing criminal justice reforms.<\/p>\n

Supervisors also approved the creation of a permanent standing committee to oversee the implementation of the recommendations, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee now has an action plan. It\u2019s in our ballpark,\u201d Miley said. \u201cWe need to take it up and deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miley identified criminal justice reform, housing, education, and economic opportunity as three major issues the county should prioritize.<\/p>\n

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\u201cClearly, economic opportunity is another important factor,\u201d explained Miley. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to balance those four and say which is more prominent, but I do think all four of those are significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see reparations as a path, an opportunity,\u201d he added. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a panacea, but I do believe it\u2019s definitely a part of the equation that could help African Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alameda County has already partnered with the nearby City of Hayward on a separate effort providing direct financial redress.<\/p>\n

The Russell City Redress Fund was initially seeded with $900,000 and has since grown to $1.3 million.<\/p>\n

The money is intended to provide direct payments to survivors and descendants of Russell City, a multiracial unincorporated community that was seized through eminent domain and bulldozed by local authorities in the 1950s and 1960s for industrial redevelopment.<\/p>\n

The debate over direct payments comes as a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, faces a federal legal challenge.<\/p>\n

The Chicago suburb became the first US city to distribute reparations, offering $25,000 housing grants to eligible black residents to address historic housing discrimination.<\/p>\n

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The US Department of Justice intervened in a federal class-action lawsuit challenging the program in June, arguing that its race-based criteria violate the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

Miley said cash payments alone would not necessarily accomplish the broader changes county officials are seeking.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd once again, that\u2019s why a cash payment isn\u2019t necessarily always the objective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective is: How do we get people to have housing? How do we get people to be economically stable? How do you deal with criminal justice reform?<\/p>\n

\u201cA cash payment doesn\u2019t always mean that those things will occur. We have to change policies, and we have to change programs. I think that\u2019s where we need to invest our resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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