Hundreds of Black and Mexican families announced the filing of an amended claim Tuesday asserting that the city of Palm Springs caused up to $2 billion in harm to families who were forcibly evicted…
PALM SPRINGS — Hundreds of Black and Mexican families announced the filing of an amended claim Tuesday asserting that the city of Palm Springs caused up to $2 billion in harm to families who were forcibly evicted from the downtown Section 14 neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
Attorneys representing evicted families held a news conference in Los Angeles to announce the damages claim. The event included survivors of the evictions, “who remember them vividly and … what those evictions did to them and their families,” Lisa Richardson, a spokeswoman for attorneys representing the families, told City News Service.
The city of Palm Springs formally apologized in September 2021 for the evictions, and the City Council asked its staff to develop proposals for possible economic investments that could act as reparation for the destruction of the Section 14 neighborhood. The city also removed a statue of Frank Bogert — who was Palm Springs mayor at the time — from the front of City Hall.
The successful implementation of this plan resulted in the removal of the city’s people of color and restructured the race and class configuration of the city.”“Over the past two years, the City Council and staff have set out on a course aimed at making right what happened during that period,” Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton said in a statement.
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