The legislation introduced in City Council would change how vacant city land is sold. One affordable housing advocate described the bill as “almost revolutionary.”
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A vacant lot on Clouet Street in the city s Upper 9th Ward. April 26, 2021.
Several seemingly abandoned lots sit side by side on Clouet Street in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Here, the grass is overgrown and the weeds stretch several feet high. There’s shattered glass and discarded trash a pile of tires and a busted mattress with rusted springs.
The lots look largely the same, but one of them is different. It’s currently up for grabs as part of the newly launched
Mow to Own Good Neighbor Program which allows residents to purchase vacant lots adjacent to their homes after they’ve cleaned them up.
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