Why do governmental agencies (and other entities with delegated authority) use condemnation to acquire property?
The traditional answer is that individual landowners could refuse to sell their property, or consent to selling it only at unreasonably high prices, making it difficult or impossible for the condemning authority to build certain infrastructure or other public projects that would benefit the public at large. (Many people, including partner Glenn Sodd, have pointed out defects in Texas’s eminent-domain system.
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