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February 8, 2008
LA & Cal Tenants Fight to Save Rent Control
City Watch [Los Angeles, CA]
By Joe Catron
Congratulations Bruce Ratner, your controversial land-grabbing Atlantic Yards plan is officially the national poster project for abusing eminent domain for private projects:
Emboldened by a national outcry against the use of eminent domain to seize property for private developments like Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, California landlords have devised an ingenious attack on the state's local rent-control laws: Disguising a statewide referendum to ban them as a measure to reform eminent domain. After the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial Kelo v. City of New London ruling in 2005, which allowed eminent-domain takings for private use, California landlords promoted Proposition 90, a deceptive proposal to weaken all public regulation of private property, including rent controls. It lost by a five-point margin in November 2006.
Posted by lumi at February 8, 2008 5:15 AM