This is by no means fully developed.
What if the Miami condo collapse was to justify condemning and land/property grabs under the guise of "public safety," but it's really all about real estate and money?
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Slightly different legal definitions I guess, but the end result is they can take your shit and destroy it and build something new on it and there's not a ton we can do about it.
Yeah, the big recent one here is for the HS2 trainline "Compulsory Purchases" (which is the name of Eminent domain here).
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/land-compensation-manual-section-1-compulsory-purchase-general/compulsory-purchase-general
£600m was spent on compulsory purchases for the trainline
one example, a building older than any of the European settlements in the US
https://news.sky.com/story/couple-lose-seven-year-fight-against-hs2-as-17th-century-home-to-be-demolished-12040136