The bureaucracy doesn't respond to their petitions, so they organize takeovers of unused or underused land.
In addition, INTI identifies underused land and taxes landowners who are not producing enough.
The amount of underused industrial land in the vicinity made it even harder for banks and builders to envision it as a residential neighborhood.
That discourages construction and is one reason for the many acres of underused or abandoned land in the city - land that could be generating taxes.
This would increase the holding cost of vacant or underused land and lower the penalty for construction or renovation.
The New Farmer Development Project was created to unite experienced farmers with underused land.
"It's probably the most well-located bit of underused land in the entire city."
Domesday Book makes it clear that large areas were wooded and that waste and underused land was widespread in 1086.
For three years prior to this dramatic change Kitchin and Brown had invested considerable time in writing to organisations known to hold stocks of underused land.
White farmers stopped identifying underused land for purchase.