DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – A reparations task force established by the Detroit City Council needs another extension to complete its report and needs another four months to finish it.

The city council is expected to approve the extension to Oct. 31 at its Tuesday, June 24 meeting.

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The reparations task force was created after voters overwhelmingly approved Detroit Proposal R in Nov. 2021. That ballot passed by a 80% to 20% margin. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 77% of the people who live in Detroit are Black.

The reparations would come in the form of housing and economic development programs for the city’s Black residents.

In February, the city council gave the task force an extension until June to complete the report.

“Given the nature of this work and the need to be historically accurate, critically conscious and contemporarily relevant, the Task Force membership finds it necessary to request an extension of time to complete the work,” the June 24 resolution stated.