Remember that Kelo v. City of New London case? It was in all the papers. But what’s happened since the developers won their battle to get the City of New London to kick private homeowners off their own property? Not much in the way of development but a lot in the way of outrageous actions by city officials, gutless city council members and the New London Development Corporation.
These include charging homeowners for back rent to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, saying that, since NLDC won the case, the homeowners had for years been living on land they didn’t own. Then it turns out that the planned museum that was to go on the homeowners’ land is not even going to be located there. And, to top it off, a politically powerful group is the only one whose building was allowed to stay on the land.
Read about the whole mess, and never think, “It can’t happen here.”
