| In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't. That's not accurate. The US, state and

| In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't. That's not accurate. The US, state and city governments can most definitely take private land and convert it to public use if enough people benefit from it. https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-dom... There are other means as well, a city could purchase something on the open market, or a county could purchase land and convert into a public park, or what ever suits them.