The Evanston City Council passed an expansion of their reparations program to provide $25,000 in no-strings-attached direct cash payments for those eligible. “We cannot get the dollars out to our Black community soon enough.' BlackVoicesWTTW
This week the Evanston City Council put in place a major change to its groundbreaking reparations program, which includes payments meant to address discriminatory housing laws that existed in Evanston for decades.
“The Black community, historically Black, still predominately Black today, has no access to a neighborhood school, stripped of a hospital, still no access to healthy foods,” said Robin Rue Simmons, a former member of Evanston’s City Council who sits on the city’s reparations committee.“Before we even see the data,” Simmons said, “we’re living in the conditions of anti-Blackness in Evanston.”
“People can use it how they see fit,” Burns said. “They can use it for home rehab, to pay off their interest on their mortgage, or they can use it for groceries, or they can use it to repair their vehicles,” Burns said. “It involves property management, it involves construction, it involves contractors, it involves the work needing to be performed itself,” Burns said.
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