The city buys tax-foreclosed lots and sells them cheaply to developers who will build affordable housing. This is everything currently listed, checked against the appraisal roll.
The 33 held back are not a backlog — 32 of them were acquired since 2022, and they cluster: four on Hart Street, three each on Colonial and Carpenter, several deeded the same day. That reads as block assembly.
Two checks the listing does not show. Three listed lots belong to someone else on the roll — an LLC, a private individual, and "Dallas City of et al". And two are not vacant: the roll classes them as single family residences.
Listings scraped from the city's land bank portal, which publishes no download, joined to the DCAD 2026 certified roll on the account number. Owner names are matched by pattern: the land bank is spelled five ways on the roll, two of them misspellings. · geopen.io