Richmond, Calif., is trying to help distressed homeowners by reducing the principal on their mortgages using eminent domain.

Richmond, California is attempting to keep homeowners in their homes by using eminent domain to buy underwater mortgages, and the banks don't like it.

Residents of California's Central Valley are trying to stop a high-speed rail system that would connect San Francisco to Los Angeles from cutting through their land.

A hard-hit Southern California county is giving serious consideration to a plan to seize troublesome mortgages.

Lawmakers in Illinois are poised to take up a bill to hasten construction on a new expressway. But to get the land for the highway, lawmakers may use a controversial method known as quick-take power.