Columbia University may have manufactured the blight that justified its land seizures

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 223 “The condemnation went through despite the fact that the firm that conducted the ‘blight’ study that justified the condemnation had been on Columbia’s payroll, and much of the blight used to justify the takings was actually on land that Columbia already owned, thereby making it likely that Columbia itself had created the ‘blight’ that justified the use of eminent domain.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1080

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘self-created blight’ pattern — where the condemning institution manufactures the justification for its own takings — is a sharp illustration of saturated-system harm that could anchor a short essay on how eminent domain concealment works.
• XREF: connects to: Columbia University unexpectedly hosted the Marxist Institut in New York. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 180