Shades of "Up".
Bet the man is a democrat and will be richer if he steals the homes of these poor people. Wonder how many are democrats and if they voted for the democrat party?
I’m not suggesting anything here but I would find it hard to contain my anger if someone tried to take my home and not offer me enough to buy another - $6,000 - what a pittance. Mayor should be looking for a new residence in Pleasant Ridge cemetery!
I wonder about the ethnicity of folks in this neighborhood. The “Urban Renewal” programs of the last century were designed to destroy working class Catholic neighborhoods.
Seems like Mr Fascist Soros Mayor is trying to make some money of his own and absolutely thinking about the people of his town who live in nice homes that would be built today by Habitat for Humanity for around 75K average. Something is truly amok in Mayberry. this is the link for zillow at the level to see the values. Hit minus to back out and view the town. not much for sale here Mr Fascist Stalin Mayor.
A New Development? Shades of Kelso all over again. None of us own our property any more.
Sorry to say that the mayor is a republican.
The comments following the article state the Mayor is a republican.
Commies come in all shapes and sizes.
With $6K they can pay their Obamacare deductible...
Shades of "Up".
Insanity.
Even if eminent domain applies, how can they possibly justify paying $6000 for houses that are being lived in? Doesn’t the law require just recompense?
Tar, feathers, fencerail, rope, politician ...
Some assembly required.
Hate to say it but this link says he is a Republican, last paragraph on the bottom. Shame on him
Hate to say it but the link below says that the Mayor is a Republican, last paragraph on the bottom.
Nobody in the US owns real property. You only rent it from the government via property taxes. Stop paying your taxes, and you lose your property. If the powers to be decide that they can make more money off of your property via redevelopment, your property will be confiscated, and sold to the highest bidder, with the full force of the government, and there is nothing you can do about it, short of armed rebellion.
“Hall first submitted a 17,000-page application for money from Indiana’s Blight Elimination Program in June of this year”
Only in government could an application have 17K pages. LOL
Zillow shows the cheapest LOT in Charlestown, IN for sale at $10K. So $6K for a house seems ridiculous.
Difficult to tell by the pictures, but the houses seem to be in overall fair condition, with some in seemingly excellent condition. Blight is in the eye of the beholder, and blight is seen best by those that profit from eliminating it with somebody else’s money.
A developer wants the properties right? The community is responsible for the sewerage, the water supply, utilities, etc. right?
They always never make it known the taxpayer in the community is responsible for the utilities. The people get displaced without appropriate compensation, the taxpayer gets ripped off, and the developer rides off into the sunset with cash in pocket having sold to a holding company. The mayor retires to his gated community, and is forgotten, and the taxpayer continues to pay for all the maintenance of the utilities forever, and ever.
Looks like the potential eminent domain abuse is driving down property values in the neighborhood (look at the “Zestimate” vs. the asking price): http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/335-Clark-Rd-Charlestown-IN-47111/53239759_zpid/
All your houses are belong to us.
Deuteronomy 27:17
17 ‘Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’