Topic: Blight

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97: Flowers for Fuller
1:40:42 - 1:46:50

97: Flowers for Fuller

The Ambiguity of Blight and Eminent Domain

The hosts discuss how the ambiguous legal definition of "blight" is used by governments to seize private property through eminent domain for redevelopment. Examples include New York's Penn Station and the Barclays Center. They argue that "urban renewal" has historically been used to displace black communities and suggest that current migrant crises could be used to create "artificial blight" for future land grabs.