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The depopulation is not even. You can’t really abandon a few people in a neighborhood without services ethically or legally, and the last holdouts may not move
by bobthepanda 4y ago
The depopulation is not even. You can’t really abandon a few people in a neighborhood without services ethically or legally, and the last holdouts may not move for anything.
Similar issues occurred in Detroit and other Rust Belt areas, and those had extreme population declines but could not abandon services and infrastructure.
- samtp 4y ago> the last holdouts may not move for anything I mean eminent domain has been used for centuries (even pretty regularly today) for this exact purpose.
- bobthepanda 4y agoWhich requires compensation at fair market values. If your entity needs to save money by closing up shop they probably can’t pay for eminent domain (which is what we saw in the Rust Belt)