I'm seeing a lot of implications that something untoward is happening in the name of removing "blight", but all of the example buildings shown for the Penn station project are obviously blighted by any common definition. Most laypeople would weigh that busted in windows with no plan for repair would count as blight.
There are at least three separate issues to contend with on this topic: (1) balancing private property rights against economic development and the public welfare (2) Local inconsistencies and subjectivity in application of the ambiguous legal definitions (3) perverse incentives and possible graft and corruption that the law enables.
Read a book on Eminent Domain after the Kelo case out of CT some years back (elderly woman kicked out of her home for drug company development) and in that book the authors talked about blight. At the time, according the NJ law, their governor's mansion actually matched the state law definition of blighted land. Wish I remembered the name of the book.....
Whenever I pass Baltimore on the train I see largely nothing but immense stretches of blight. Basically you can see multi story apartments that burned out long ago through the tremendous gaping hole in another apartment building.
I almost sense a scheme where a property developer will let a place fall into disrepair, then once sufficiently dangerous and worn down they will turn around and ask the government to pay them for some shiny new development project. Corruption at the cost of the general public
The government would pay the market value of the land in its current state, not its potential value after the area has been redeveloped. Remember the government is seizing the property, you can only take what they give, you can fight the amount in court, but you'll given fair market value for a lot in a bad area.
It is in fact, pretty common. I could draw a map (if youtube would let me attach it, lol) of my home "town" of the Tampa Metro Area, outlining exactly where this is happening.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that most "blight" is really just neighborhoods where the residents are poor, or are minorities, and they're being governed by people who could loose several lifetime's income for one of these folks in their couch cushions and not notice the difference. The windows are old and the sidwalk's cracked? Christ, my multi-billion dollar college campus would be considered blight by these standards. Not to mention most small businesses don't survive relocation, they're dependent on their local customer base which takes *years* to build. So trying to move the business is effectively just closing it with inadequate compensation to the owner (let alone the employees).
So we need to find inconsistencies in these specific cities I bet there are some government buildings and buildings or homes owned by local leaders or their families that are considered blight.
We need more private property protections from the government. Eminent domain or land appropriation should be heavily restricted to prevent governments from abusing them
Earlier this week the channel posted "Why are America's big cities littered with vacant lots" , cataloging the detrimental effects that has . This must be eminent domain week at the WSJ . Feels like someone is grinding someone's axe.
I thought the same thing, but with a more optimistic connotation that maybe even conservative WSJ understands that we need to do more to help our cities. That's probably way too generous for them though.
I'm guessing some rich property owner is upset that a property they're sitting on and waiting for value to go up instead of repairing and renting it out just got described as blighted. Ha. Serves em right. City will now use it for something meaningful.
Most of these blight neighborhoods are often rent controlled where the rents are too low for owners to maintain. In other cases the owners are simple low income, so they cant maintain the property. Many of these blight neighborhoods have homelessness problems along with theft and vandalism which results in under investment casuing property to fall into decay
Penn project is good idea, but to build 8 new office towers is folly. Have they heard of Covid and work-from-home, or 50% empty office space? Residential might be a better idea. 5
The lady sounds mad nervous in her responses. Watch how she looks to the side when she speaks. It's a common function of human communication when one is nervous and or lying! Even sheep have doubts when it comes to eating out of the hand that feeds them
I'm seeing a lot of implications that something untoward is happening in the name of removing "blight", but all of the example buildings shown for the Penn station project are obviously blighted by any common definition. Most laypeople would weigh that busted in windows with no plan for repair would count as blight.
There are at least three separate issues to contend with on this topic: (1) balancing private property rights against economic development and the public welfare (2) Local inconsistencies and subjectivity in application of the ambiguous legal definitions (3) perverse incentives and possible graft and corruption that the law enables.
Possible graft in NY? Surely you jest?
Read a book on Eminent Domain after the Kelo case out of CT some years back (elderly woman kicked out of her home for drug company development) and in that book the authors talked about blight. At the time, according the NJ law, their governor's mansion actually matched the state law definition of blighted land. Wish I remembered the name of the book.....
Whenever I pass Baltimore on the train I see largely nothing but immense stretches of blight. Basically you can see multi story apartments that burned out long ago through the tremendous gaping hole in another apartment building.
I almost sense a scheme where a property developer will let a place fall into disrepair, then once sufficiently dangerous and worn down they will turn around and ask the government to pay them for some shiny new development project. Corruption at the cost of the general public
The government would pay the market value of the land in its current state, not its potential value after the area has been redeveloped. Remember the government is seizing the property, you can only take what they give, you can fight the amount in court, but you'll given fair market value for a lot in a bad area.
Or the old let in the criminals to drive down the values and buy it all cheap
It is in fact, pretty common. I could draw a map (if youtube would let me attach it, lol) of my home "town" of the Tampa Metro Area, outlining exactly where this is happening.
Most of San Francisco should be declared blighted.
As a SF native 😭😭😭
Only in downtown SF. Other areas are nice.
@@OneManOnFire Yup, I used to be one too 😒
A lot of this has to do with the fact that most "blight" is really just neighborhoods where the residents are poor, or are minorities, and they're being governed by people who could loose several lifetime's income for one of these folks in their couch cushions and not notice the difference. The windows are old and the sidwalk's cracked? Christ, my multi-billion dollar college campus would be considered blight by these standards.
Not to mention most small businesses don't survive relocation, they're dependent on their local customer base which takes *years* to build. So trying to move the business is effectively just closing it with inadequate compensation to the owner (let alone the employees).
The area around Barclays wasn’t that residential and there weren’t that many businesses. Penn station wasn’t that residential either.
Looking at you, Portland, OR.
So we need to find inconsistencies in these specific cities I bet there are some government buildings and buildings or homes owned by local leaders or their families that are considered blight.
We need more private property protections from the government. Eminent domain or land appropriation should be heavily restricted to prevent governments from abusing them
I wonder how many Art Deco movie theaters have been leveled in the name of removing blight.
Earlier this week the channel posted "Why are America's big cities littered with vacant lots" , cataloging the detrimental effects that has .
This must be eminent domain week at the WSJ . Feels like someone is grinding someone's axe.
I thought the same thing, but with a more optimistic connotation that maybe even conservative WSJ understands that we need to do more to help our cities. That's probably way too generous for them though.
seems "blight" is direct subsequent to GENTRIFICATION... correct me if I'm ranting.
Eminent Domain (why the colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis)
Funny thing is when you have a place with much unemployment and no one has the time to clean their room, their house and their kerbs...
Pike place in Seattle… I was wondering were that name of Coffee from Starbucks was coming from
I'm guessing some rich property owner is upset that a property they're sitting on and waiting for value to go up instead of repairing and renting it out just got described as blighted. Ha. Serves em right. City will now use it for something meaningful.
Most of these blight neighborhoods are often rent controlled where the rents are too low for owners to maintain. In other cases the owners are simple low income, so they cant maintain the property.
Many of these blight neighborhoods have homelessness problems along with theft and vandalism which results in under investment casuing property to fall into decay
Penn project is good idea, but to build 8 new office towers is folly. Have they heard of Covid and work-from-home, or 50% empty office space? Residential might be a better idea.
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I thought blight means some food crop disease. Hmmmmmm
Yes, same word different definitions
Penn station should be redeveloped. What an awful concourse
well at least they kind of started to improve the Amtrak train acccess there with Moynihan Train Hall
@@jasonyau326 yes it’s definitely and improvement over the options that existed before
Yes this woman is blighted
In the video game, Warcraft 3, the evil undead race build their nefarious structures on blighted ground.
Blight Town!
Wondering how are friends in Blighty feel about this video :)
The lady sounds mad nervous in her responses. Watch how she looks to the side when she speaks. It's a common function of human communication when one is nervous and or lying! Even sheep have doubts when it comes to eating out of the hand that feeds them
Where I live is a heap of rural blight.
blight always reminds me of Irish potato famine.
Pike Place not Pike's Place
you get in bad plight
just repave the sidewalk
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Trump is a blight.
The Democratic Party is a blight
Stop talking about that guy already.
you can also call it communism 😀
Exactly
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If only this applied to blighttown
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