Tags: Eminent Domain

Part on ongoing debate on affordable housing in Philadelphia

Had been offered $400,000 to move in the eminent domain case

Foes say authorities are grossly underestimating land value

It's customary, when discussing eminent domain, to allow that it's a necessary use of state power that enhances the good of the community, before then going on to discuss whatever horrendous abuse is being committed this week through the application of the government's ability to take private property for "public use."

Plan to build affordable housing on the plot

Politicians, city planners, and developers have long argued that without the power to seize property from unwilling sellers economic development would grind to a halt.

Making life easier for government is not a good reason to infringe individual rights.

Rapper Jay Z profited from eminent domain abuse in Brooklyn.

It's the issue that won't go away

Gov. Jerry Brown and the redevelopment scam

Gotta find space for all those state-funded stimulus projects