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Adopt-A-Lot (Los Angeles)
Free Lots Angeles collective

Adopt-A-Lot is a pilot program that enables community groups in park-poor Los Angeles neighborhoods to adopt city-owned vacant lots and transform them into community-serving public spaces.

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Mow-to-Own Program (Beatrice, NE)
City of Beatrice

The City of Beatrice, Nebraska runs a Mow-to-Own Program that allows adjacent homeowners, individuals, and developers to acquire city-owned vacant lots after proving they are capable, willing, and consistent with maintaining it.

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Tri-COG Side Lot Development Program
Tri-COG Land Bank

The Tri-COG Land Bank offers adjacent homeowners the opportunity to expand their yard through their Side Lot Development Program.

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City of Philadelphia Policies for the Sale and Reuse of City Owned Property
City of Philadelphia

The City of Philadelphia provides a path to license, lease, and purchase land from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA), the Department of Public Property, and the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC) and supports the use of vacant land for urban agriculture that improves the quality of life in the City.

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Love Your Block Mini-Grant Program
City of Buffalo

The Love Your Block Mini-Grant Program offers small grants to neighborhood-based organizations in our target areas for volunteer projects that address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.

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Adopt-A-Lot (Harrisburg, PA)
City of Harrisburg

The City of Harrisburg’s Adopt-A-Lot program allows people to “adopt” city-owned vacant lots for the purpose of maintaining and beautifying them.

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Toledo Grass Mowing Program
City of Toledo, Ohio

With the help of 52 community mowing partners, the City of Toledo, Ohio’s grass mowing program works each summer to keep parks, neighborhoods, and boulevards neat and tidy.

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Open Data Portal – Vacant Building Dashboard
City of Baltimore

Baltimore’s Open Data Portal provides access to hundreds of datasets and interactive dashboards. The Vacant Building Dashboard shares data on number of vacant building notices, building rehabs, and demolitions. The data can be sorted and filtered by geographic bounds, time increments, and even “housing market typology.”

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Mow to Own (St. Louis)
City of St. Louis Land Reutilization Authority

The ‘Mow to Own’ Program is allows residents who own an occupied residential or commercial property to purchase adjacent vacant lots for $125. Applications are submitted to the St. Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) Board of Commissioners for review. Following approval, the successful applicant receives a deed to the property with a two-year maintenance lien.

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Detroit Solar Map
City of Detroit

The Detroit Solar Map shows the potential solar energy for buildings and vacant lots within the Detroit city limits.

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Adopt-A-Lot (Los Angeles)

Adopt-A-Lot is a pilot program that enables community groups in park-poor Los Angeles neighborhoods to adopt city-owned vacant lots and transform them into community-serving public spaces.

Read More »
Mow-to-Own Program (Beatrice, NE)

The City of Beatrice, Nebraska runs a Mow-to-Own Program that allows adjacent homeowners, individuals, and developers to acquire city-owned vacant lots after proving they are capable, willing, and consistent with maintaining it.

Read More »
Tri-COG Side Lot Development Program

The Tri-COG Land Bank offers adjacent homeowners the opportunity to expand their yard through their Side Lot Development Program.

Read More »
City of Philadelphia Policies for the Sale and Reuse of City Owned Property

The City of Philadelphia provides a path to license, lease, and purchase land from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA), the Department of Public Property, and the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC) and supports the use of vacant land for urban agriculture that improves the quality of life in the City.

Read More »
Love Your Block Mini-Grant Program

The Love Your Block Mini-Grant Program offers small grants to neighborhood-based organizations in our target areas for volunteer projects that address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.

Read More »
Adopt-A-Lot (Harrisburg, PA)

The City of Harrisburg’s Adopt-A-Lot program allows people to “adopt” city-owned vacant lots for the purpose of maintaining and beautifying them.

Read More »
Toledo Grass Mowing Program

With the help of 52 community mowing partners, the City of Toledo, Ohio’s grass mowing program works each summer to keep parks, neighborhoods, and boulevards neat and tidy.

Read More »
Open Data Portal – Vacant Building Dashboard

Baltimore’s Open Data Portal provides access to hundreds of datasets and interactive dashboards. The Vacant Building Dashboard shares data on number of vacant building notices, building rehabs, and demolitions. The data can be sorted and filtered by geographic bounds, time increments, and even “housing market typology.”

Read More »
Mow to Own (St. Louis)

The ‘Mow to Own’ Program is allows residents who own an occupied residential or commercial property to purchase adjacent vacant lots for $125. Applications are submitted to the St. Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) Board of Commissioners for review. Following approval, the successful applicant receives a deed to the property with a two-year maintenance lien.

Read More »
Detroit Solar Map

The Detroit Solar Map shows the potential solar energy for buildings and vacant lots within the Detroit city limits.

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