And so thousands of migrants simply ignored the law and settled illegally on vacant land.
No private sector businesses would see the vacant land as an opportunity for new development.
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Community compulsory purchase which would help communities to put vacant land and buildings back into use.
The city council has approved plans for a 15-year regeneration scheme to bring vacant land into use and overhaul key buildings.
While there is more vacant land in Detroit than there is land in San Francisco, that is mostly outside Ford Field.
Vacant land was sold at public auction, and speculation, fraud and corruption flourished as buying and selling lots became the biggest game in town.
In loosely regulated metropolitan housing markets, like Houston, Texas, the relationship between the MID and home ownership is stronger because there is a lot of vacant land and zoning regulations are not very strict.
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Hazardous-waste facilities have to go somewhere, and buying 976 acres (the size of Arrowhead) of vacant land is easier and cheaper in rural Alabama than it would be in a tony district of Birmingham.
With more than 43 percent of the land vacant, Youngstown is slowly being erased.
"The great thing is, if one of these shops doesn't feel it's getting the most out of this location, they can potentially move to another part of the country with a vacant bit of land, without having to close down or dismantle a thing, " says Wade.
The economic impact is calculated assuming that in the absence of the convention center, the land would remain vacant.
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"This is not greenbelt land, this is unwanted land that has been vacant for many years, " he said.
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