Georgia lawmakers want to let property and homeowners sue their governments over lost property values caused by failures to clear out homeless encampments and other public nuisances.
According to House Bill 295 , if a city or other municipal government adopts policies or patterns of not complying with bans on immigration sanctuary policies or blocks on various public nuisance activities, leading to a “local government maintaining a public nuisance,” the property owners would be entitled to sue for loss of value at their properties.
The legislation says that if an owner “incurs documented expenses to mitigate the effects” of those policies on their property, or if the fair market value is reduced by those policies, then they are entitled to seek compensation…