Grant Helps Dearborn County Eliminate Empty Properties

DEARBORN COUNTY – A grant totaling $218,000 will assist Dearborn County demolish several vacant properties.

A grant application was submitted to the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority in July to receive a Blight Elimination Program Award.

The program helps prevent avoidable foreclosures by eliminating abandoned homes in select Indiana communities.

Dearborn County officials will use the 218-thousand dollar grant to demolish five sites in Aurora, one in Moores Hill and five in unincorporated areas of the county, according to the Dearborn County Register.

The Indiana Housing and Commmunity Development Authority estimates approximately 4,000 blighted or abandoned homes in the state will be eliminated through the program.