Land Vacancy and Land Blight in New York City

We're working now c p t r in new york city. And we've got a pretty good, exhaustive analysis of land vacancy and land blight there. The research worked that every vacant lot that was residential north of a hundred tenth street went from a very low tax to a much higher tax. Now raises about ten million dollars a year, plus there's houses on top now. So the pilot programme was tiny, but it was spear headed by some powerful elected officials,. mostly black in harlem. This is south harlem. It was signed into law by david patterson, who was then the governor of new york. so starting small and moving up can mean a lot of things