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 vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.Dana Berliner
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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This bill places unprecedented limits on eminent domain abuse. The one glaring shortcoming is the temporary exceptions for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but even that does not dampen the near total victory this bill provides.
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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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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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