The K Street Mall in Sacramento, and particularly its taxpayer-subsidized Dive Bar and Cosmopolitan Cabaret, has long been a poster-child for the injustice and unwisdom of government-run redevelopment schemes. These schemes give bureaucrats power to take away money that citizens would have … Continue reading
Columnist Dan Walters has been following recent bills introduced into the state legislature to resurrect redevelopment in California. As you may recall, late last year the California Supreme Court upheld AB26, the bill which eliminated California’s redevelopment agencies. This marked … Continue reading
Our friends at the Castle Coalition have put together this video about redevelopment in California. It features, among others, Ahmad Mesdaq, who lost his San Diego cigar store to redevelopment plutocrats a few years ago. PLF filed this brief in Mesdaq’s … Continue reading
After the infamous decision in Kelo v. New London, the fight over eminent domain abuse shifted primarily to states, many of which passed laws designed (or, at least, pretending) to restrict the power of eminent domain. Federal reform seemed less … Continue reading
Robert Thomas, PLF’s man in Hawaii, and blogger at inversecondemnation.com, will be joining the lineup of December 1 Strafford live phone/web seminar on Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Government. For more information on the conference and how to register, … Continue reading