AMT381-STATE-SANCTIONED THEFT - The State is Taking Family Farms - As A Man Thinketh

The State is Taking Family Farms: The Shocking Cost of Affordable Housing Mandates
A 175-year-old family farm in Cranbury, New Jersey, is being seized through eminent domain—not for roads or public utilities, but to meet the state’s affordable housing quota. In this episode of As A Man Thinketh on Yanasa TV, host Charlie Rankin exposes the unintended consequences of the Mount Laurel Doctrine, a state mandate that allows developers to override local zoning laws—and even take private farmland—for profit under the guise of “affordable housing.”
00:12:18 – Intro to Cranbury, NJ farm being seized after 175 years of family ownership
00:12:57 – State affordable housing mandates driving municipal decisions
00:13:36 – Support farm education: “Defend the Right to Farm” leather patch hats
00:14:07 – Explanation of the Mount Laurel Doctrine and Builder’s Remedy
00:14:34 – How quotas are forcing towns into development against their will
00:15:33 – Why the state’s 2025 deadline is triggering land grabs
00:16:17 – Personal story: Living in a camper due to housing costs
00:17:03 – Totalitarian overreach? What happens if towns don’t comply
00:17:20 – A look at the farm and the family’s conservation efforts
00:18:10 – Private developers profit, taxpayers foot the bill
00:18:43 – Town forced to submit 265-unit plan by June 2025
00:19:07 – Natural market corrections vs. forced eminent domain
00:19:52 – Developers win, the family loses: value theft through mandate
00:20:53 – Redistribution of land to the private sector, funded by you

Categories: Lifestyle

Starring: Charlie and Shuana Rankin