Join us to Transform Vacant Spaces into Vibrant Places
Since 2007, the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference has been the essential event for people advancing community revitalization. As the only national conference dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, RVP uplifts innovative solutions that disrupt the cycle of vacancy. The big, bold ideas that can only be found at RVP inspire change and community transformation from the ground up and top down.
Save the Date!
October 9-11, 2024
Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
Hyatt Regency | St. Louis, Missouri
Registration will open June 2024. Questions about the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference? Email Thamarrah Jones at [email protected].
2024 Sponsors & Exhibitors
As a nonprofit, Community Progress relies on the financial support of like-minded partners who share our vision of a future where all people live in strong, healthy, just communities where widespread vacant properties no longer exist.
Interested in supporting the conference? Learn more here or contact Madison Gharghoury at [email protected] to discuss sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities.
In the video above, Ian Beniston, Executive Director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, explains why the Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference is “Geek Central” for people working on community revitalization.
Conference History
Established in 2007 and typically held every 18 months, RVP has traveled to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cleveland, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Featured speakers have included The Warmth of Other Suns author Isabel Wilkerson, artist Theaster Gates, Evicted author Matthew Desmond, Congressman Dan Kildee, and other leading changemakers throughout the United States.
Past conferences have shared practical strategies, research, and fresh ideas on a wide range of topics. In addition to traditional conference sessions, mobile workshops take participants into neighborhoods to experience revitalization strategies firsthand.
View the 2022 RVP Conference Presentations » and the Photo Album »
About the Host
The Center for Community Progress helps people turn vacant spaces into vibrant places. Since 2010, Community Progress has provided urban, suburban, and rural communities battling systemic vacancy with the policies, tools, and resources needed to address the full cycle of property revitalization. We are the only national nonprofit dedicated to tackling vacant properties and drive change by uncovering and disrupting the unjust systems that perpetuate entrenched vacancy and property deterioration.