The case was the taking clause in the fifth amendment which enshrines your right to private property without undue government interference traditionally takings on the public use is included highways , schools and other owned government private projects but in 2005 supreme court turned that notion in to its ear .
It was seen for the decades that the city of New London, Connecticut was suffering a great deal because of the economic deadline and by the 1998 the rate of unemployment was doubled and thus the population of the state declined to just mere 24,000.
In order to tackle this government and local officials created the New London Development Corp. (NDLC) which was aimed to revive the significant economic strategies. The Pfizer drug company was hired to build a research facility which was aimed to revive the job stimulus and bring much more needed employment to that area.
NDLC made a master plan of making hotels, museum, office spaces shops, river walks and new residential housing. but for this to be effective the existing 78 houses in which Susan kelo was one of them had to be demolished.
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