The Left Would Rather Bargain with the Redevelopment Monster
…the right, had joined Cato and Reason, of libertarian leanings, in filing briefs for Kelo, which would have restricted the use of eminent domain to true public use, not private…
…the right, had joined Cato and Reason, of libertarian leanings, in filing briefs for Kelo, which would have restricted the use of eminent domain to true public use, not private…
…been ruled that cities can define “blight” or “economic advantage” as they choose and take property by eminent domain to resell to whoever the government imagines will do the most…
…I was younger. They also handle opposition to eminent domain because of arbitrarily declared “blight.” Philosophically, I think their leadership is more libertarian than I am, but the areas where…
…people entering the United States, to eminent domain for private benefit to ‘create jobs.’ [The reader probably knows that the last is my original Hot Button.] The American system is…
Howard Ahmanson, Jr. is a philanthropist and writer whose public activities focus on deepening awareness and fostering better policy regarding issues of affordable housing, land use, and eminent domain as…
Howard Ahmanson, Jr. is a philanthropist and writer whose public activities focus on deepening awareness and fostering better policy regarding issues of affordable housing, land use, and eminent domain as…
…Rescue Mission affair. In the 1970s the leadership of the city of Santa Ana ran the Rescue Mission out of downtown. They used ‘eminent domain for public purpose’ to do…
…state, and the less limited nature of civil law, runs all the way down. Berman and Kelo, for example, validated eminent domain for private benefit – the ultimate in crony…
…Labour government after World War II, where land was taken from farmers by ‘eminent domain’ [in British English, ‘compulsory purchase’]. Two of these, Stevenage and Hatfield, were in the same…