Both of these bills will put a stop to that abuse of eminent domain. They will still be able to take dangerous properties, abandoned properties all of the things that people would look at and say, 'That property is blighted.' But they will no longer be able to take perfectly fine, functioning homes and businesses because some other glitzier home and business could be built there.
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Plans are being made with the idea of just wiping people out. Technically, they'll be asked to sell, but (eminent domain) is something threatened from the very beginning.Dana Berliner
The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.
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Some states have taken tentative first steps, but much remains to be done to fully protect home and business owners.
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The idea that you can work hard and save and finally buy something and have it taken from you because somebody else richer can make more money off of that land makes a mockery of what everyone is striving for.
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The only people who support the use of eminent domain for private development are cities that use it, developers and businesses that benefit from it and planners who plan it. Everyone else hates it.
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