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A research report by students in the Center’s Social Justice Lawyering Clinic, Close to Home: Supporting the Neighborhood Residents Who Are Reviving Philadelphia\u2019s Vacant Side Yards,<\/a> played a prominent role at a citywide meeting of Philly’s Land Stewards Union on April 18, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Claire Hirschberg, L 25 (center), describes the researchers’ findings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The report<\/a> found that the City benefits from the unpaid work of hundreds of people who put time, energy and money into caring for neglected, tax-delinquent land near their homes. In theory, these land stewards should be able to look to the Philadelphia Land Bank<\/a> for help in acquiring the properties that they’ve stewarded. But in practice, the Land Bank has largely failed to provide that help, and longtime land stewards — who are most often people of color in Philly’s lower-income neighborhoods — are losing properties to developers without ever being given the opportunity to try to acquire them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the report’s authors, Claire Hirschberg L ’25, described the researchers’ findings and recommendations for changes in Land Bank and City policy. For more, check out news reports by WHYY <\/a>and the Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A research report by students in the Center’s Social Justice Lawyering Clinic, Close to Home: Supporting the Neighborhood Residents Who Are Reviving Philadelphia\u2019s Vacant Side Yards, played a prominent role at a citywide meeting of Philly’s Land Stewards Union on April 18, 2026. 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