Center for Heirs' Property Preservation

The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems Farmland Access Legal Toolkit for Heirs' Property is a comprehensive collection of heirs' property resources including issue background, legal, and organization providing direct assistants to heirs' property owners.

This USDA website provides in-depth resources to support landowners and others interested in learning about and addressing heirs' property issues.

The mission of the Heirs' Property Retention Coalition (HPRC) is to stem the tide of heirs' property land loss, particularly among low-income families of color in the southeast, so that such families can retain their ancestral land and maintain it as a sustainable asset for future generations.

This USDA factsheet provides definitions and resources on heirs' property.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announces $67 million in competitive loans through the new Heirs’ Property Relending Program (HPRP), which aims to help agricultural producers and landowners resolve heirs’ land ownership and succession issues.

The National Agricultural Library Heirs' Property webpage provides a list of selected resources from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Agricultural Law Center, nonprofit direct service organizations, and more.

The USDA Heirs' Property Relending Program webpage provides information and resources for heirs' property landowners including steps to apply for the relending program.

This book addresses many challenges that have plagued disadvantaged families that own heirs' property and discusses a range of solutions to these problems.

The heirs’ property toolkit is a compilation of resources to support land trusts, agency staff and other stakeholders as they seek to resolve barriers to landownership and participation in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s programs.

The Black Family Land Trust provides resources to African-Americans and other historically underserved landowners to protect and preserve their land.