I don't mean to disparage him but I can't relate to the guy. Maybe I'm cold or detached, but I feel little to no attachment to the places I grew up in as a kid,

I don't mean to disparage him but I can't relate to the guy. Maybe I'm cold or detached, but I feel little to no attachment to the places I grew up in as a kid, so I personally don't feel like they need to be preserved. I see it not as a loss, but more like a change. Also no-fault evicting is not a terrible travesty. It sucks, but usually there's compensation to help with moving expenses. If the land owners don't have the ability to do this, renters can hold them by the balls (preventing a sale) and it would drive rent prices through the roof to compensate for this.