Palms Springs officials have apologized for the city's role in what one state official called a “city-engineered holocaust” in an area called Section 14.
Former Black and Latino residents and their descendants filed a reparations claim because of a "city-engineered holocaust" they say robbed them of generational wealth.
Palm Springs faces a $2-billion reparations claim from Black and Latino families who were burned out of their homes 50 years ago during "slum clearance."
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the city evicted the mostly Black and Latino working-class residents of Section 14 and destroyed their homes. Now, survivors and their descendants seek reparations.
Former residents and their descendants say the city of Palm Springs owes them up to $2 billion in damages for the forcible removal in the 1950s and '60s of cooks, chauffeurs and builders who helped turn the desert town into a playground for the stars.
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