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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
Who is "they?" The government does not own this property they want to steal from its owners to bulldoze. Then resell for a profit later. If property owners want to bulldoze fine, but having the government force you to bulldoze your property or steal your property to bulldoze is another.  |
I can only speak fro the situation from the town I grew up in. There the houses were abandoned. They were owned by a bank (or banks) and the city bought them from the those banks for next to nothing. So in this case the city did own them. I don't know who owns the property in the article, but it does say in the article: "The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee." so it sounds like they are making some kind of deals with the owners of those homes.