Eminent Domain in Action, Pt. 3: Oakland Seizes Small Businesses' Properties

The new Supreme Court ruling has now opened up the opportunity for cities, in collusion with large corporate interests, to target individual and small-business properties, so that huge sprawling complexes of hotels, condos, ballparks and corporate headquarters can be erected (supposedly in the public interest). Harry at Scratchings supplies us with another example of a small business owner whose family has owned a property in downtown Oakland since 1949:

OAKLAND: City forces out 2 downtown businesses. Action follows high court ruling on eminent domain

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Eminent Domain in Action, Pt. 2