The STL Vacancy Collaborative (STLVC) is a coalition of residents, businesses, non-profits, and local government dedicated to reducing vacant properties and their negative impacts in the City of St. Louis.
STLVC advances efforts to prevent, maintain, stabilize, beautify, and reuse vacant properties. Through volunteer project groups, public engagement, data analysis, and grant programs, STLVC empowers public and private sectors to transform vacant lots and buildings into neighborhood assets.
STLVC advances efforts to prevent, maintain, stabilize, beautify, and reuse vacant properties. Through volunteer project groups, public engagement, data analysis, and grant programs, STLVC empowers public and private sectors to transform vacant lots and buildings into neighborhood assets.
Our Work Serving as a hub for collaboration, STLVC aligns volunteer-driven efforts around data-informed, community-led solutions. From developing community resources, to supporting vacant lot activation, our work continues to move the needle on vacancy and support long-term stabilization across St. Louis.
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Guiding PrinciplesRooted in our commitment to racial equity, our guiding principles are embedded in everything we do to create meaningful, lasting change.
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Our Structure
In 2026, the STLVC returned to its roots as a volunteer-driven initiative. The STLVC Board of Directors lead the work, aided by contract support to maintain our essential resources—including our data tools—and administer the Vacancy to Vibrancy Small Grants Program.
In Memory of Sundy E. Whiteside
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Sundy Whiteside, resident of the Walnut Park East neighborhood, Co-Founder/Co-Chair of the St. Louis Vacancy Collaborative's Steering Committee, and Board President of the St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO) passed away in 2023.
She was an inspiration to many for her ceaseless desire to collectively work towards an "ideal St. Louis" in which "we create excellent and racially just outcomes through responsive government, strong communities, action that promotes socioeconomic and racial equity, just development, affordable housing, connective technology, and the highest quality free schools in the country.” Sundy will be greatly missed, and we will continue to follow in her footsteps along the path to fulfilling her vision. |
Photo provided by Humans of St. Louis. Original from the 2021 CBN Award for Resident Leadership.
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