Dana Berliner Quotations

The only people who support the use of eminent domain for private development are cities that use it, developers and businesses that benefit from it and planners who plan it. Everyone else hates it.

There is going to be a mega-debate. The momentum toward legislative reform is very strong.

We lost the Supreme Court case, but we're ultimately going to win in changing the way that eminent domain is going to be used in this country.

Plans are being made with the idea of just wiping people out. Technically, they'll be asked to sell, but (eminent domain) is something threatened from the very beginning.

Florida's laws are one of the worst in the country for using eminent domain for private development. It is absolutely terrible.

Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.

Some states have taken tentative first steps, but much remains to be done to fully protect home and business owners.

This is an enormous problem all across the country. Eminent domain is being used to take prime real estate for private development projects.

The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

Any area in Florida can be designated as blighted under Florida's current law.

The idea that you can work hard and save and finally buy something and have it taken from you because somebody else richer can make more money off of that land makes a mockery of what everyone is striving for.