For decades, spaces like Iglesias Garden and the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden have transformed long-vacant lots in North Philadelphia into sources of food, care, and community. Long maintained by local residents on land once neglected by the city, these gardens now sit in the path of new housing development.
In Fairhill, rents have risen over the past decade even as thousands of parcels of land sit vacant. This piece follows residents who steward these lots to resist development and examines the policies that quietly reshape daily life—and the people pushing back.
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