With a pair of separate but intertwined legislative acts, the Buffalo Common Council is looking at ways to act the problem of more than 7,000 vacant lots across the city.
Council members, on Nov. 25, approved a city homestead act where people can buy a Buffalo-owned vacant lot for at least $1,000 but it comes with the caveat that the property can not be land banked.
It must be developed in less than two years…