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Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High by bdw5204 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:37AM (#33248992)
The 5th Amendment of the US Constitution specifically permits eminent domain with "just compensation" so yes an American city could take a large chunk of its private real estate under eminent domain and put it to "public use". Converting vacant office buildings into homeless shelters would absolutely count as a "public use".
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Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High by kasey_junk on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:41PM (#33250193)
Buying some of the most expensive real estate in the world with “just compensation” seems like it’s more than a stroke of a pen.

Further, the court cases this will bring will take _forever_ because one side will be extremely well funded and the other side will be the city of San Francisco. Not the stroke of a pen.

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