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Scenario

Why reparations processes can exclude those they aim to help

My city is paying reparations to families affected by urban renewal, but the application asks for documentation from the 1960s that my family never had the privilege to keep or the literacy to maintain.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Bureaucratic requirements for redress often mirror the same systems that created the original harm.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

Peri

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