Plans to provide a $5 million lump sum and $1 homes to black residents of San Francisco as reparations were given vociferous support on Tuesday at a public hearing of the Board of Supervisors - despite likely to sink the struggling city, where a $728 million deficit is already predicted over the next two fiscal years.Black residents are eligible if they meet two of eight criteria - among them, being locked up or descended from someone locked up on drug charges or being priced out of a neighborhood.Tuesday's hearing was the first since the controversial scheme was launched and it saw enthusiastic San Franciscans line up to take the microphone and address the Board - with several singing their support. One sang a verse from the 1964 Civil Rights anthem by Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come.
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