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.
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Black and Latino Californians who were displaced from their Section 14 neighborhood in Palm Springs allege the city pushed them out by hiring contractors to destroy homes in an area that was tight-knit and full of diversity.
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."