{"id":986,"date":"2018-02-12T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/02\/12\/3-reasons-an-editorial-opposes-eminent-domain-for-affordable-housing\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:59:00","slug":"3-reasons-an-editorial-opposes-eminent-domain-for-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/3-reasons-an-editorial-opposes-eminent-domain-for-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons an Editorial Opposes Eminent Domain for Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Jersey editorial board opposed the taking of private property by a\u00a0for-profit developer to build between 22 and 29 low- to moderate-income apartments in a mixed use retail and market rate housing development.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affordable housing is not a public use for eminent domain<\/li>\n<li>Its iffy if the properties\u00a0taken are\u00a0blighted<\/li>\n<li>handing private property, seized by emient domain, to a private developer doesn&#8217;t fly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2018\/02\/08\/emerson-eminent-domain-land-grab-new-jersey\/319763002\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">North Jersey |\u00a0Editorial: In Emerson, eminent domain or land grab?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Jersey editorial board opposed the taking of private property by a\u00a0for-profit developer to build between 22 and 29 low- to moderate-income apartments in a mixed use retail and market rate housing development.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affordable housing is not a public use for eminent domain<\/li>\n<li>Its iffy if the properties\u00a0taken are\u00a0blighted<\/li>\n<li>handing private property, seized by emient domain, to a private developer doesn&#8217;t fly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2018\/02\/08\/emerson-eminent-domain-land-grab-new-jersey\/319763002\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">North Jersey |\u00a0Editorial: In Emerson, eminent domain or land grab?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,10,37,28,2,38,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blight","category-co-development","category-economic-development","category-local-government-trend","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-public-use-or-benefit","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}