By the numbers
Where the state plans to spend Hardest Hit’ funding for demolition of abandoned housing:
| Counties | Allocation |
|---|
| Lake, Marion |
$16,192,500 |
| Allen, Hamilton, St. Joseph |
$10,447,500 |
| Clark, Delaware, Elkhart, Hendricks, Johnson, LaPorte, Madison, Monroe, Porter, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Vigo |
$19,897,500 |
| Bartholomew, Boone, Dearborn, Floyd, Grant, Hancock, Howard, Kosciusko, Morgan, Warrick, Wayne |
$8,737,500 |
| Adams, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Dubois, Gibson, Green, Harrison, Henry, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jennings, Knox, LaGrange, Lawrence, Marshall, Miami, Montgomery, Noble, Posey, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Shelby, Steuben, Wabash, Washington, Wells, Whitley |
$13,987,500 |
| Benton, Blackford, Brown, Carroll, Crawford, Fayette, Fountain, Franklin, Fulton, Jay, Martin, Newton, Ohio, Orange, Parke, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Rush, Scott, Spencer, Starke, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tipton, Union, Vermillion, Warren, White |
$5,737,500 |
Source: IHCDA
MUNCIE — The state is making $75 million available to demolish blighted and abandoned homes in Indiana, Lt. Gov Sue Ellspermann told an audience at city hall Wednesday night.
But there’s no guarantee every city and town will get a share of the U.S. Department of Treasury funds, which will be allocated by the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA).
“It’s a competitive process,” Rayanna Binder, director of the authority’s blight elimination program, said during the forum. “By definition, some folks will be left out,”
Muncie will vie with cities and towns in 11 other counties — Clark, Elkhart, Hendricks, Johnson, LaPorte, Madison, Monroe, Porter, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh and Vigo — for $19.8 million of the funding.
The seats of those counties are Jeffersonville, Elkhart, Danville, Franklin, LaPorte, Anderson, Bloomington, Valparaiso, Lafayette, Evansville and Terre Haute.
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