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Detroit Using Eminent Domain to Plop Panels Instead of People on Vacant Lots – HotAir

It’s always something with the Green Grifters.

The latest out of the once bustling metropolis of Detroit is the mayor’s plan to continue his battle against urban blight and resident flight by, oh…not refurbishing houses or building new ones on the vacant sites littering the city.





Well, shoot – some aren’t even vacant – they’re just not pretty. But they still have occupants and renters in them.

No worries. 

Everybody gets to leave, and the roofs over their heads come down in the name of ‘FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE.’ 

But mainly, it sounds like they’re getting booted to help pay for the electricity used by the buildings the city government runs.

…Mayor Mike Duggan announced that Gratiot-Findlay, Van Dyke-Lynch and the State Fair neighborhoods are part of the first phase selections of Detroit’s solar neighborhoods initiative, which the city announced last year,…

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