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11. "Eminent domain battles in court may be fierce but..."
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:30 PM
Jul 17

These rural areas are owned by gun-toting 45-voters who will even battle a neighbor in an adjacent property if a fence is moved. And this is probably a phenomena that increases the further west you go where in the eastern urban areas, the poorer and POC had their homes confiscated (with often nominal reimbursement) and removed in order to make way for highways and byways and trains.

It's only recently when places like here in Philly, are trying to bring neighborhoods "back together" after being gutted and divided. E.g., what was dubbed the "Chinatown Stitch" project to put a cap over an expressway that cuts right through the neighborhood -



The funding was approved last year and now this and similar projects are expected to be cancelled and the money pulled thanks to 45 taking it to give to the billionaires.

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