Vacant Property Prescriptions
A Reinvestment Strategy
August 1996
Prepared by the City of Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development, John Kromer, Director
This paper explains the significance of housing abandonment as a community development issue for Philadelphia neighborhoods. It describes a combination of vacant property prevention and treatment activities organized by the Office of Housing and Community Development as the basis for a broad neighborhood reinvestment strategy.
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- Reclaiming Vacant Lots
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- An Asset Management Approach to Vacant Land
- From Vacant Land to Open Space
- Vacant Land Management in Philadelphia Neighborhoods
- Neighborhood Transformations
- Vacant Property Prescriptions
- Making Philadelphia a 'Green Country Towne'
- From Falls to Fairmount
Vacant Land (17)
- Reclaiming Vacant Lots
- Vacant Land in Philadelphia
- Vacant Land in Cities: an Urban Resource
- Dirt Into Dollars
- Transforming America's Cities
- Addressing the Vacant and Abandoned Property Problem
- An Asset Management Approach to Vacant Land
- From Vacant Land to Open Space
- Vacant Land Management in Philadelphia Neighborhoods
- NWF Seeks to Turn Urban Brownfields into Green Spaces
- Reported Causes of Change in City Supply of Vacant Land
- City Willing to Sell Vacant Lots for One Dollar
- Vacant Land and Environmental Contamination in Philadelphia
- Vacant Property Prescriptions
- Parking it in the Big Apple
- Urban Vacant Land
- Housing Policy Research Program