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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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.Dana Berliner
This is an enormous problem all across the country. Eminent domain is being used to take prime real estate for private development projects.
Dana Berliner
It's going to set an example and encourage other banks and hopefully developers to say they will not take advantage of the government's power of eminent domain to force people out of their homes and businesses. It's the right thing to do, and it also makes sense as a business decision. These projects are so wildly unpopular, they're going to encounter political opposition and maybe litigation, and they often don't work anyway.
Dana Berliner
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.
Dana Berliner
We lost the Supreme Court case, but we're ultimately going to win in changing the way that eminent domain is going to be used in this country.
Dana Berliner
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