Eminent Domain. Police Station. Blight. 3 Reasons Property Owners Opposed Eminent Domain.

Kansas City needed a new police station & crime lab in a historically black neighborhood. 

3 Reasons why property owners opposed eminent domain for an otherwise nobel purpose:

• The residents were restoring their historic homes & felt blindsided
• Eminent domain is a scary process for property owners
• Previous eminent domain projects had promised economic prosperity for the area & that never came to fruition

Know your opposition, like you know yourself.

The Atlantic | Photographing the Heartbreaking Consequences of Eminent Domain