Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?

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    11 months ago

    Theoretically eminent domain still exists but it’s only used to replace black neighborhoods with highways

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      11 months ago

      Not true! It’s also used to seize property from existing owners in order to hand it off to private developers (see Kelo v. New London).

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        But when we want passenger rail we have to buy the land at full price as set by the landowner no matter how much they’re gouging

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      11 months ago

      That’s not so much losing your home as it is having it forcibly purchased from you at a fair market price. At least in theory.