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Victimizing the Vulnerable

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Victimizing the The Demographics of Eminent Domain Abuse is a first-of-its-kind national study that systematically examined U.S. Census data to determine the profile of people subject to eminent domain abuse in 184 projects across the country. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized the week the study was released, “The report shows that eminent domain disproportionately affects poor, ethnic minorities with lower levels of education. Minorities comprised 58% of the population in areas targeted by eminent domain, compared to 45% in the surrounding communities. The median income of residents targeted by eminent domain is less than $19,000 per year, compared to more than $23,000 elsewhere. And 25% live at or below the poverty line, versus only 16% elsewhere.”

“Eminent domain abuse is essentially Robin Hood in taking from the poor to give to wealthy, politically connected developers,” said Dr. Dick M. Carpenter II, director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice, who produced the study with IJ Research Assistant John K. Ross.

The study vindicates the warning offered by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote in her dissent in the infamous Kelo case that eminent domain would be used “to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more.”

Language: English

Pages: 27

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: June 01, 2007

Victimizing the Vulnerable

0/5 ( ratings)

Victimizing the The Demographics of Eminent Domain Abuse is a first-of-its-kind national study that systematically examined U.S. Census data to determine the profile of people subject to eminent domain abuse in 184 projects across the country. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized the week the study was released, “The report shows that eminent domain disproportionately affects poor, ethnic minorities with lower levels of education. Minorities comprised 58% of the population in areas targeted by eminent domain, compared to 45% in the surrounding communities. The median income of residents targeted by eminent domain is less than $19,000 per year, compared to more than $23,000 elsewhere. And 25% live at or below the poverty line, versus only 16% elsewhere.”

“Eminent domain abuse is essentially Robin Hood in taking from the poor to give to wealthy, politically connected developers,” said Dr. Dick M. Carpenter II, director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice, who produced the study with IJ Research Assistant John K. Ross.

The study vindicates the warning offered by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote in her dissent in the infamous Kelo case that eminent domain would be used “to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more.”

Language: English

Pages: 27

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: June 01, 2007

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