Urban renewal introduced government seizure of private property for other individuals’ profit
Evidence
In 1949, the federal government enacted a new approach to the housing problems of cities: urban renewal. The approach was new both in philosophy—for the first time in America, government was given the right to seize an individual’s private property not for its own use but for reassignment to another individual for his use and profit—and in scope: a billion dollars was appropriated in 1949 and it was agreed that this was only seed money to prepare the ground for later, greater plantings of cash. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 62
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines urban renewal by its novel legal innovation: eminent domain not for public use but for private profit — a precise, reusable formulation.
- XREF: connects to: Colonial property law retroactively legalized forced seizures of waqf land — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 235
Broader Connections
- Colonial property law retroactively legalized forced seizures of waqf land
#exemplifies(0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 235