Burn Back Better - Solution
In aggregate the Palisade land is now worth more than with the houses on it. The locals must band together, form a land consortium and borrow against the future value. Then design and develop under THEIR own plan. This is their only hope for recompense if not vengeance.
A community-owned Building and Loan can enjoy profits of 25% a year. This is because it makes the developer/contractor money and loans it at low-interest back into the community.
A people's public city bank trades the CAFR blue-chips for gold, hypothecates times 10 and has multiple millions to loan overnight.