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Home sharing. Homeaway. AirBnB helps the local economy. According to an economic study by AirBnB, direct guest spending from guests accounts for $124 million in the last year.
Austin ordinance was approved by committee in September 2015. The proposal requires full city council vetting.
Austin Business Journal | Airbnb fights back over Austin’s short-term rental rules
Why the draw to land rights? Recently a land rights group won the Hilton Humanitarian Prize of $2 million in unrestricted funding, which set the trend in motion
Why land rights?
Inside Philanthropy | Land Rights in Poor Countries Is a Hot Cause for More Funders. Here’s Why
Yes, CATO estimates more than 1,000,000 homes have been taken since 2005 Kelo.
How did they get to 1,000,000+ homes if there is no national data base? CATO used the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey.
CATO says the homes taken fall heavily on minority home owners.
What bill wants to limit eminent domain power in power line cases? Congressmen Boozman & Womack each filed the Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land, or APPROVAL, Act, which would rewrite Section 1222 of the 2005 Energy Policy Act
What is it they want to limit? Federal government eminent domain authority in power line construction.
Why do they want to limit federal eminent domain power? They want to shift leverage to the states in interstate power line…
No eminent domain for private gain has been echoing around the country. What happened this week:
The Legislature raising public use standard: South Carolina
The Problem that sparked the legislation: A controversial pipeline that upset property owners but the company behind it said eminent domain would be used for about 1% of the project.
The Legislation :“A private pipeline company would have to show the line is a public necessity — meaning it’s vital to the welfare of the people…
On Friday, Ocotber 23, 2015 St. Louis aldermen voted to approve eminent domain to retain a geospatial “spy agency” in St. Louis.
St.Louis Post-Dispatch | Eminent domain gets the OK so St. Louis can try to keep spy agency
What city is trying to retain an employer by using eminent domain?
St. Louis may lose…
Move-On.org, home to online petitions, has 44 eminent domain petitions, the overwhelming majority oppose development.
The most popular anti-eminent domain sentiments:
TPPF remains opposed to annexation & supports annexation reform.
TPPF | TPPF Statement on Delaying San Antonio’s Vote on Annexation
Previously on Information Intelligence on September 10, 2015:
4 Reasons TPPF Supports Annexation Reform
Pointing to a new forced annexation of 87 square miles and 52,000 Texans in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes passage of annexation reform.
TPPF backed SB 1639 and HB 2221 from the 2015 Texas Legislature. These were good…
What’s happening in new Hampshire? The key early voting Presidential state is expereiencing protests against a pipeline.
What’s the Republican govenror saying? The Governor has not taken a position.
What are Republicans saying? Opposed to the taking of private land.
Are there othere issues that contribute to the protests? Yes, environmentalists are concerned about conservation land that the pipeline will traverse.
Union Leader | Pipeline opponents give governor an earful at…