PHS LandCare program
Every parcel the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society LandCare program has stabilized — cleaned, fenced, planted — across Philadelphia. The cleanest single-source view of where vacancy intervention has actually landed.
latest program year 2025 · 12,124 sites
About the PHS LandCare program
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's LandCare program turns vacant Philadelphia parcels into clean, fenced, low-maintenance lots — typically grass and trees with a low post-and-rail fence. A vacant-lot stabilization isn't a redevelopment, but it changes what the block reads like at street level: trash drops, sightlines open, fly-tipping has fewer hiding spots.
Fields
- stabilized — 'Y' / 'N'. The site has been through the full stabilization treatment.
- year, season, program — when and under which program the work was done. Stories that care about "before vs after" pin to this.
- numparcelssite — number of contiguous parcels rolled into the site. A "site" is the stabilization unit, not the parcel.
- district — PHS administrative district, not council district. Don't confuse the two when overlaying with city-political maps.
- brt_id — BRT/OPA account number where the site maps cleanly to a tax parcel. Use this to join against property history.
Caveats
Stabilization is durable but not permanent — maintenance schedules vary by program. The published layer reflects the inventory as of the most recent refresh, not a historical census. Sites that were de-listed (transferred, redeveloped, lost to budget cuts) may no longer appear. The dataset is a snapshot, not a longitudinal record; before/after comparison stories should pair with year-stamped 311 / L&I data on the same blocks.
Layer: FeatureServer →. Pair with Vacant Property Indicators and 311 service requests.