How is this any different than Mugabe's latest 'urban renewal' project?
So a rich person can tear down your house, kick you out on the street, for pennies on the dollar and build a revenue propery just so the city can get a few more tax dollars that a rich developer can write off.
This is the most patently abusive and unfair judgement I have ever seen.
"So a rich person can tear down your house, kick you out on the street, for pennies on the dollar and build a revenue propery just so the city can get a few more tax dollars that a rich developer can write off.
This is the most patently abusive and unfair judgement I have ever seen."
So long as the town council agrees to condemn and turn the property over to the person who will make a "higher use" of it (in other words: increase tax revenues) the effects will be precisely as you say.
I agree that the law is unfair.
I believe that homes, in particular (there can be a lower standard for commerical properties, vacant land, farm land) should have a much higher standard that should have to apply before they can be condemned and taken.
But what I believe is not writ in America, or France, or anywhere else (including my own house, at least when my wife is present, though that be the universal law when dealing with the unfair sex).