SpaceX wants to buy a small Texas neighborhood. If residents say no, a nonprofit that supports the company wields a power to force them out.

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SpaceX can't force people out of Boca Chica Village, Texas. But Cameron County's Spaceport Development Corporation, which is friendly to SpaceX, can.

SpaceX is developing a Mars-capable rocket system called Starship at the southeastern tip of Texas. The company, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, built its experimental spaceport in and around a residential neighborhood of a few dozen houses called Boca Chica Village. Citing disruptions and safety issues, SpaceX has offered to buy out residents who live in the village. But many of them, who are elderly or retired, told Business Insider they plan to decline the offer.

SpaceX is developing a Mars-capable rocket system called Starship at the southeastern tip of Texas. The company, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, built its experimental spaceport in and around a residential neighborhood of a few dozen houses called Boca Chica Village. Citing disruptions and safety issues, SpaceX has offered to buy out residents who live in the village. But many of them, who are elderly or retired, told Business Insider they plan to decline the offer.

 

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SpaceX will literally force those people then

Add takings under domain to its plunder of subsidies

I hate when big companies do this...

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