{"id":176,"date":"2005-06-23T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/a-house-is-not-a-home\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:35:10","slug":"a-house-is-not-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/a-house-is-not-a-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A house is not a home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were thinking of buying a house, this should give you pause. From the AP <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050623\/ap_on_go_su_co\/scotus_seizing_property_2\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people&#8217;s homes and businesses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even against their will \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for private economic development.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate tax revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were thinking of buying a house, this should give you pause. From the AP article: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people&#8217;s homes and businesses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even against their will \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for private economic development. The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}