Re-writing historic Eminent Domain

What is happening? Federal funds are being allocated to help communities that were divided when eminent domain was used to build the interstate system, and did so by separating neighborhoods of color.

Why is this important? In Minnesota, Interstate 94 split in half the historic African American community of Rondo. This directly impacted 700 homes and 300 businesses, and in today’s property and business value of $157 million

How will this be important? The U.S. Department of Transportation, between the 1950s and 1970s, more than 475,000 homes were destroyed and more than one million people displaced during the construction of tens of thousands of miles of interstate highways

Denver 7 | Interstate-divided neighborhoods look to be made whole with federal funding

WCPO 9 | Interstate-divided neighborhoods look to be made whole with federal funding