Building on Greenfields
…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…
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The Official Blog of Howard Ahmanson Jr.
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…
A Response to Philip Hamburger on the “Administrative Threat”
…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…
About Howard Ahmanson
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…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…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…
Authoritarianism is a Hot Subject Nowadays
…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…
The Social Justice Opportunity of the Century
…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…
Where I’m Still Libertarian (With a couple of shameless plugs.)
…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…
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…