Eminent domain lets governments seize black-owned property at low-set prices
Evidence
One additional way black people have had their wealth stripped from them in order to benefit their white peers is eminent domain. When a state or local government decides it wants to take land currently owned by a private citizen and use it for a “necessary” government purpose, it can force the owner to sell their property and exercise a wide latitude in determining what to pay for it. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 343
Categorization
- SHARE: The “wide latitude in determining what to pay” framing is worth sending to a friend in real estate or public policy.
- XREF: connects to: Expulsion campaigns forced black property owners to sell below market value — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 365; Racial violence and legal seizure stripped black property from those who built it; Local government used eminent domain where private harassment failed to remove black residents — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 346 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Expulsion campaigns forced black property owners to sell below market value — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 365; Racial violence and legal seizure stripped black property from those who built it; Local government used eminent domain where private harassment failed to remove black residents — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 346 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Eminent domain takings disproportionately target minority neighborhoods today
#corroborates(0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 448 - Government eminent domain outflanked the Klan in seizing Black-owned beach property.
#exemplifies(0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 346