The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a reparations settlement for former residents of a mostly Black and Latino neighborhood destroyed for commercial development in the 1960s.

Black and Latino families who were displaced from a Southern California neighborhood in the 1960s have reached a tentative settlement agreement with the city of Palm Springs.

Palm Springs city council approves a $5.9 million reparations settlement for former residents of the Section 14 neighborhood, displaced in the 1960s. Combined with $21 million for housing and small business support,

The desert resort city is one of the first in the nation to reach such a deal, which received backing from politicians like Sen. Laphonza Butler.