to another pri- vate owner, so long as it might be upgraded– i.e., given to an owner who will use it in a way that the legislature deems more bene-ficial to the public–in the process.

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New London does not claim that Susette Kelo’s and Wilhelmina Dery’s well- maintained homes are the source of any so- cial harm. Indeed, it could not so claim with- out adopting the absurd argument that any single-family home that might be razed to make way for an apartment building, or any church that might be replaced with a retail store, or any small business that might be more lucrative if it were instead part of a national franchise, is inherently harmful to

 

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