Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.
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.
Plans are being made with the idea of just wiping people out. Technically, they'll be asked to sell, but (eminent domain) is something threatened from the very beginning.
There is going to be a mega-debate. The momentum toward legislative reform is very strong.
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.
Some states have taken tentative first steps, but much remains to be done to fully protect home and business owners.
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.
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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