April 14, 2006: Happy communities are all alike — but every community threatened
by eminent domain abuse (EDA) is different.
Clifton, a Queens social worker and Navy veteran, lays out his platform, which includes legalized drugs,
preventing eminent domain abuses and a cap on the state income tax.
An analysis of the populations living in areas of New York City under threat of condemnation for private development finds that
such eminent domain abuse disproportionately targets those who are less well - off and less educated, as well as ethnic and racial minorities — populations least able to fight back to protect their homes and businesses.
«Basically every state that's been in session has been considering legislation to cut back
on eminent domain abuses,» says Dana Berliner, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, a private nonprofit group that represented the home owners in Kelo.
Aka,
Eminent Domain Abuse.