Posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
Patricia Kambach couldn’t bear to watch a crew demolish her longtime neighbor’s home this month, so she went inside her own house in Woodbridge, New Jersey, where she has lived since John F. Kennedy was president.
“I lived here 56 years, and it’s hard,” said Kambach.
Hard but not rare. The state has bought and torn down 145 homes since 2013 in Woodbridge, with eight homes demolished this month alone. Dozens more are slated to be torn down in the near future.
It’s all part of an effort to get ahead of climate change. Some neighborhoods in this town of over 100,000 residents just off the bustling New Jersey Turnpike are projected to be partly or fully underwater in coming decades as global sea levels rise. […]
The goal of the state buyout program, Blue Acres, is twofold: To remove people and property from the danger of future floods, and to use the vacant land left behind as a buffer or sponge to help absorb the water from those floods. …
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These people are insane. Then again, this is Democrat NJ.
I would quickly leave New Jersey.
This is insane.
No!!! More like a slow-motion evacutation from the leftist hell-hole created by the far left "regressives" calling themselves democrats.
Just wow is right. Some well-connected developer is going to be a gazillionaire.
I suspect some well connected potentate wants this land on the cheap. The climate change nonsense is just a cover.
Exactly what I was thinking. I’ll be very surprised if the land isn’t repurposed for some income-producing use.
Expect McMansions coming in or developers of condos. Woodbridge always seemed to me very working class.
We think alike, but you were a bit faster.
I’m betting the state will sell the property to NJ Dem big shots for pennies on the dollar.
Your tax dollars at work.
The level of insanity is so high
The state is depopulating; wouldn’t be surprised if this is just to reclaim land for natural rain runoff/absorption. I suspect these programs will broaden, and play a key role in removing single-family homes as people are forced into multi-family hives. The new constructions around me in NJ are of this multi-family hive type, while the countless “For Sale” signs adorn unwanted single-family homes (with high taxes).
No globalwarmers can explain to me why the Obamas bought an oceanfront mansion; I assure them the sea can’t rise here any more than it does in nearby Massachusetts.
There HAS to be a way for me to make some money off of the potential pending doom facing the earth! It just seems way too easy to ignore anymore.
Just ask the Obamas. They know -- and acquired ocean front property for themselves.
The government uses OUR money to pay for the properties. They then lose money on loss of property taxes, so they raise taxes on others to make up the difference. When everyone forgets that there was supposed to be a flood, they resell the land to a commercial development company for industrial operations, or to house illegal immigrants or the homeless. The entire time, the buying is from taxpayers, the selling fills the pockets of donors and politicians.
God knows they wouldn’t move to shore up areas where they could stop the rise from happening, like build dikes.
Just give up, we are defeated. Except of course on waterfront areas where the politicians and the Millionaires live.
You’re probably right - putting a positive spin on demolishing unwanted single-family housing stock in a dying state, in a neighborhood nowhere near the ocean.
I know Woodbridge. It’s the next logical destination for higher value manufacturing and offices due to an expanding throughput at Port Authority ports at Elizabeth.
Grabbing homes there is purely eminent domain and political corruption
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