Discussing 'Quick-Take' Redevelopment Efforts

By Anne W. Howard

NEW BOOKS

Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts, seeks to examine recent policy changes regarding eminent domain and community redevelopment. The report looks at "what impact these proposed changes might have on the development of affordable housing and mixed-income communities" as well as the effect on poor families in redeveloping areas. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the government's ability to transfer ownership