February 28, 2014 / Comments Off on NYC Vacant Property Oversight Hearing Testimony / 596 Acres
Testimony to the Committee on Housing and Buildings, Vacant Property In NYC Hello Chair Williams and members of the Committee. My name is Paula Segal and I am the Director of 596 Acres, New York City’s community land access [...]
February 7, 2014 / Comments Off on LA Open Acres: Free the lots, free the streets, free the data! / 596 Acres
A project of Community Health Councils, 596 Acres, and C-Lab Free the lots, free the streets, free the data! 3 important wins for community land access… As we rapidly approach the beta-release of LA Open Acres, three important things [...]
January 23, 2014 / Comments Off on Philadelphia Adopts Milestone Ordinance to Transform Vacant Properties (an article about one of our partner projects written by staff at another) / 596 Acres
The best part of building our small network of community land access advocates using participatory mapping and available data to strengthen their local work: seeing the network really take on a life of its own. Our partners in Philadelphia, [...]