These are pitiful, tear-jerking personal stories. But how are they different from the stories of the farmers and families displaced by the Tennessee Valley Authority dams and lakes decreed under Roosevelt? Socialist regimes get the public works (and anything else) they want, regardless of the cost to individuals and their property and freedom. Nothing to see here. Move along
Public works will be definition displace people. My own family lost the house my dad grew up in to a flood control impoundment in KS.
But people also complain about CA not building more dams and reservoirs and canals. All of which would displace people and animals.
Infrastructure always causes some people grief. Whether built by commies or capitalists. That is not, of itself, a reason not to build it. Although those displaced should be adequately compensated, as indeed our constitution requires. Though not always followed.