AlCo supervisors sign off on $1M redress fund to compensate evicted Russell City residents

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has voted to create a roughly $1 million “redress fund” to bring some amount of justice to the former residents of Russell City, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline.

The vote Tuesday authorized money to be set aside from several supervisors’ discretionary budgets to fund direct payments to victims of the community’s destruction, which was orchestrated in the 1960s by white politicians then sitting on the Board of Supervisors and the Hayward City Council.