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Blighted Area

A location where multiple buildings are dilapidated or abandoned. Blighted areas are marked by low property values, crime and capital flight. Many municipalities take steps to reduce blight; for example, a city may offer a tax incentive for a business to move into a blighted area or a grant to repair a building. Some blighted areas, however, are considered to be beyond repair.

blighted area

A declining area suffering from seriously decreasing property values and not likely to recover without some outside intervention.More than simply a market slip,a blighted area can be identified by deteriorating buildings,increased crime rates,and decreased occupancies.

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The appellate court rejected this argument because, under the Missouri Constitution, the legislature must enact laws expressly granting or necessarily implying that non-charter cities have the authority to "utilize eminent domain to eliminate blighted areas" for such authority to exist.

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Part environmental study, part social history, Anacostia is particularly fascinating in its stinging analysis of how programs promoting eminent domain and "urban renewal" meant to raze and replace alleged "slums" and "blighted areas" actually created slums by forcing people out of stable neighborhoods, then quickly assembling shoddy public housing east of the river, concentrating the displaced poor in an area that inevitably gave rise to crime and drug markets.