Sacramento Republicrat: Crushing the American Dream

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November 04, 2005

Crushing the American Dream

Is The United States Supreme Court responsible for single handedly destroying the American Dream? What do I mean you ask? Two words; Eminent Domain. There are more and more stories coming out where cities are using eminent domain to steal hard working Americans properties.

I think this is preposterous. Taking property away from hard working americans, it really furstrates me. I think SCOTUS needs to over turn their own decision.

In Oakland, CA, there is a tire shop that was claimed by the City of Oakland under Eminent Domain and a family owned business closed. Revelli Tire has been serving customers in downtown Oakland for the past 56 years.

The council's argument: One landowner should not impede the progress of a city on the move.

"I am being forced to give up and give away all I have worked for all these years," Revelli said.

"It is a compelling story, but it is not correct because we offered far and away more than what the land value was," said City of Oakland redevelopment director Dan Vanderpriem.

The former site of Reveilli's shop is in a part of Oakland that is slated for redevelopment. I must also state that Revelli's property is not the only property being seized.

On the opposite side of the block, the city again used their powers of Eminent Domain to take a persons property only to give it to the retailer Sears who has plans to build its own tire store.

Huh? Did I really just say that? The City of Oakland is taking one persons land and give it to a commercial retailer.

"Sears is our only major retailer," said Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid. "We have a responsibility in terms of being able to keep Sears in downtown Oakland for what we hope will be a strong viable retail base."
"We have a situation where Sears is being allowed to stay in the project with their existing tire shop while the city wants us out of there. It doesn't make sense to me," Revelli said.

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I live in Irvington NJ. I have a 3 family home. The state is taking my home. I had only lived here for six months before they came out telling us the bad news. They have shattered my life and my mother's too. They have lied to me and they are cruel and cold. They are trying to throw us out by the 14th of December. We have no where to go and no one to help us. I wrote the Mayor and he has not returned my calls or anything. I suppose to get a supplement but they want to tell me what to do with it. Because of them I became unable to make payments on my house. I lost the third floor income because of them. When they started this I had a job. Then they misused the money and the project was on hold for investigation. I don't have a job now and no money, I can't make any payments on my house or get a loan for another house. And they don't want to give me the supplement to buy a house I can afford. They have destroyed my life enough they should give me my money and pay the expenses they suppose to and leave me alone. They haven't foud me any where to live and they want to throw us out. My mother is my tenant, she has her own unit, and they won't help her. We are going to be homeless. I need help if you know some way to help please contact me by email. They are trying to railroad me. My family and I are under so much stress, we can't sleep at night, gaining weight, depressed and we are miserable, we need help.

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