Kelo Update

You probably remember the famed Kelo case in which the Supreme Court ruled that local municipalities could take your home and given it to a local developer just because his plan would generate more tax revenue. The Kelo case drew widespread attention and outrage, and many states now have passed laws preventing this kind of abuse.

So, whatever happened to the home that was the subject of the case?

As you know, Susette’s little pink house and the homes of her neighbors were seized through eminent domain in a landgrab sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court. New London promised to put a glitzy new private development project on the land, but now, nearly four years after the ruling and $78 million in taxpayer money spent, literally nothing has been built on the land; it remains vacant, the neighborhood bulldozed.

That whole case was criminal. If there was any justice the developer and the city would be required to rebuild that neighborhood and give it to the former residents.