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From Vacancy to Vibrancy

as a community engagement specialist with the STL Vacancy Collaborative, an organization with the mission of reducing vacancy in the city of St. Louis, Ronald Jones repeatedly fielded the same questions and concerns from residents, which all boiled down to this: What should be done about abandoned, dilapidated houses and vacant lots? Despite a desire to do something, citizens had

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