It’s Time For Racial Reckoning Through our Reinvestment of Public Funds
By Marqueece Harris Dawson, Curren Price and Mark Ridley-Thomas
Published April 14, 2021
This week we will get to work on the City’s annual budget. The question is: “What will it do for South Los Angeles where most African Americans in our city live?”
Last year, in the face of an unprecedented public health crisis and a reckoning with our law enforcement systems, the City began this critical work. At a time of tremendous fiscal uncertainty, we prioritized keeping Angelenos housed and helping the homeless transition off the streets. We helped thousands move into shelter and housing, and allocated almost half a billion dollars in rent relief and eviction defense programs.