Professor Ben Barros of Widener Law School has posted his testimony to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives State Government Committee suggesting possible legislative responses to Kelo. He has some interesting and practical ideas. It is available here. He suggests that the legislature enact special protections for takings of people’s homes for this purpose, a point I might rephrase to say that the likelihood of subjective value is greater for homes, but I think the intuition is similar.
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