The vacant land, the vacant and substandard housing still exists, and the demand for housing is still there.

Now, however, with the municipal government's fiscal crisis a receding memory, New York's stock of vacant housing has come to represent an extraordinary opportunity.

Larger amounts of vacant housing would be turned over to the homeless in following years.

He also stated that the census showed improbably high numbers of vacant housing in vital neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Queens.

Those relationships are playing out across Harlem, where a vast amount of vacant housing means that perhaps 40,000 new residents could be absorbed without displacing anyone.

And why not redistribute ownership of vacant housing to the poor?

But it's always worth checking with local councils and your college for possible vacant housing of this sort.

The number of vacant housing in Honaker was 5.59%.

Mr. Leichter advocated creating a program to permit people who buy vacant housing from the city to charge tenants market rents.

It can provide more vouchers and certificates to poorer people to help them afford rents where vacant housing is available.