The nonprofit St. Louis Vacancy Collaborative, a coalition “committed to reducing vacant property in St. Louis,” is shedding its three paid staff members at the end of the year and going back to a volunteer and contractor-run model.
Its board chair, Peter Hoffman, says those changes come at the “natural end of the grant cycle” between the group and the Community Development Administration (CDA), the branch of St. Louis in charge of administering federal grant funds.
“We’re not going away; we’re not closing our doors,” he says. “We’re going back to our roots.”…