FLINT -- The city of Flint will resume tearing down abandoned and condemned homes with federal grant dollars.

Emergency Financial Manager Ed Kurtz said about $2.3 million from Neighborhood Stabilization Program and Community Development Block Grant money will cover the demolition of 300 homes.  There are about 10,000 abandoned or blighted structures in Flint, 6,400 of them in the Genesee County Land Bank alone.

Kurtz said the priority will be placed on burned out homes, homes that pose a public safety risk and homes in corridors into the city.

The city is now taking proposals for demolition work.  It’s expected to begin next month.  The city has until the end of February to use these funds.