It’s not often that residents of the devotedly liberal precinct of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, agree with Antonin Scalia and Tom DeLay. But the Supreme Court’s decision last month in Kelo v. City of New London struck a nerve in this neighborhood and in others across the country where governments are coming in, forcing property owners […]
Alyssa Katz
Alyssa Katz is the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us and a senior fellow with the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Blocked Out
Here’s one way to sound the alarm about the impending death of a federal program that tens of millions benefit from and almost no one has heard of: Accuse President Bush of copycatting al-Qaeda. At a February meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, and National Association of Counties, Baltimore Mayor […]
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Toxic Haste:
After the World Trade Center fell, many shaken New Yorkers took unexpected comfort in numbers. As the mayor’s initial order for 10,000 body bags was gradually displaced by an increasingly verifiable estimated body count, the calamity began, strangely, to feel almost fathomable. But in recent months, new figures have come to define more enduring fears […]