citizenship in this country. >> $400,000 will go to qualified applicants for housing assistance. >> reporter: but the plan was not without controversy and pushback, some of it coming from the african-american community. >> the evans ton fan discusses very little with respect to redlining. >> this is not rep pays. california returned a $70 million parcel in prime beachfront land known as bruce's beach, to the bruce family, a black family whose land was stripped from them by the state a century away. while america remains a land of deep inequity, and black people have yet to enjoy the fullness of american freedom, 2021 reminds us we certainly have come a very long way. we'll have much more in the