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Article: Eminent Domain: Information about Its Uses and Effect on Property Owners and Communities Is Limited.
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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GAO-07-28 November 30, 2006
In the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, Congress mandated that GAO conduct a nationwide study on the use of eminent domain by state and local governments. This report provides information on (1) the purposes for and extent to which eminent domain can be and has been used; (2) the process states and select localities across the country use to acquire land, including by eminent domain; (3) how the use of eminent domain has affected individuals and communities in select localities; and (4) the changes state legislatures made ...