Topic
Blight
57 published works
inversecondemnation.com
Pa Court: No Public Use Because Residential Use Is Not “Blight”
You own a home built in 2002. A couple of years later, the county redevelopment authority decides that your home, and the properties your neighbors own, would together make a…
inversecondemnation.com
New Jersey: Blight Not Right
In a case a lot of folks have been following, a New Jersey appellate court yesterday struck down an attempt to declare properties "blighted." Turns out these properties in a…
New Jersey Law Blog
Designating Property For Redevelopment Using the “E” Criteria
Under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law a municipality may declare private property to be blighted if it meets one of the enumerated criteria set forth it the statute at…
Eminent Domain and Real Estate Valuation
PA House Committee Approves Blighted Property Legislation
By David Snyder
The Pennsylvania House Urban Affairs Committee recently approved legislation intended to give municipalities and others more power to deal with blighted and abandoned properties.
PropertyProf Blog
Eagle on Blight and Condemnation
By propertyprof
Steven J. Eagle (George Mason) has posted Does Blight Really Justify Condemnation? on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This article asserts, contrary to existing law, that blight condemnation is inconsistent with…
inversecondemnation.com
▪ Eminent Domain and “Blight” Designations – Missouri Weighs In
The Missouri Supreme Court, in in Mint Properties v. Centene Plaza Redev. Corp. (SC88487, Jun. 12, 2007), clarified that state's meaning of the term "blight" as a justification for taking…
PropertyProf Blog
A Tale of Two Blight Statutes
By propertyprof
Consider the following definition of blight from Pennsylvania's Urban Redevelopment Law:35 Penn. Stat. § 1702:It is hereby determined and declared as a matter of legislative finding--(a) That there exist in…