New York’s Ultra-Broad Definition of “Blight” Continues to Enable Eminent Domain Abuse

In this case, it enables the state to declare the area around Penn Station in New York City “blighted” and thereby authorize the use of eminent domain to take property for transfer to private interests.

In addition to harming local property owners, such condemnations often actually destroy more economic value than they create. Among other things, rendering property rights insecure undermines incentives to invest, and thereby impedes longterm economic development.

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/30/new-yorks-ultra-broad-definition-of-blight-continues-to-enable-eminent-domain-abuse/

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