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Title: Housing and Redevelopment Authority City
Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
Release Date : January 29, 1959
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 74 KB

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The principal question presented is whether the respondent, Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Paul, a
public body corporate and politic created by L. 1947, c. 487, may take property declared to be in a slum or blighted area
under the power of eminent domain and later sell such property to private persons pursuant to an area redevelopment plan.
The appellant contends that such taking is not for a public use and is in violation of the prohibition of Minn. Const. art.
1, Â§ 13. In discussing this issue a brief examination of state and Federal statutes relating to housing, redevelopment, and urban
renewal projects will be helpful. Since 1932 the Congress of the United States has passed various forms of legislation designed
to assist states and cities in removing the blight of unsafe and unsanitary dwellings. These programs had to do primarily
with the establishment of low-cost housing projects in slum areas and were administered through various Federal agencies.
1 From the experience gained in these earlier programs it was found that urban public housing projects are best administered
through the instrumentality of a local legally constituted housing authority on a loan and grant basis. The low-rent housing
projects created by the United States Housing Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 888, 42 USCA, Â§ 1401, et seq.) provided financial assistance
to public housing agencies engaged in the development and administration of low-rent housing and slum clearance (42 USCA,
Â§Â§ 1402[11], 1409, 1410) by (a) loans up to 90 percent of the development or land acquisition cost of a project or (b) by
a system of annual contributions to assist in maintaining the low-rent character of the project.