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Back to the lawn.... And you've got lots of options.
If you have access to a skid steer, get the grapple attachment and just tear out all the brush or you could just turn all the brush over into the dirt, burying it. Get yourself a yard or more of compost (You can probably get it free or at a very reduced cost from your town/county landfill or wastewater treatment plant) and work that into the soil then seed.
No skid steer and wanna do it on the cheap?? Not a problem. Get yourself some pruners. The ones with the 18" handle, not rose pruners, and start cutting everything down. Then take a shovel and dig up all the roots and burn or chuck them. Get some compost and a 14 tine rake, level everything out, then seed.
Yes, the right thing to do is get a soil analysis and amend the soil with whatever it needs. But I've found that grass will grow most anywhere; except on stone.
When I seed, and I do this a lot because I'm always digging out rocks in my yard, I use a leaf rake to rake in the seeds with the dirt. Then I use STRAW, not hay to cover. All the straw does is keeps the seed from running off, in rain, and helps hold the moister for germination. After the new grass starts to some in, I rake the straw out and lightly overseed. This gives me really good results.
BTW, I had to deal with, what looked like your current yard, last year. At the back end of my property, I had a jungle. It was about 5 feet deep by 145 feet wide and I cleared it by hand; using the pruners and a shovel.
Good Luck!!!
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