The North Jersey editorial board opposed the taking of private property by a for-profit developer to build between 22 and 29 low- to moderate-income apartments in a mixed use retail and market rate housing development.
The opposition:
- Affordable housing is not a public use for eminent domain
- Its iffy if the properties taken are blighted
- handing private property, seized by emient domain, to a private developer doesn’t fly
North Jersey | Editorial: In Emerson, eminent domain or land grab?