- $12,000 The average cost in Michigan for demolishing a single-family home.
- $15,000 The potential cost for a house with hazardous material (including all houses that are severely burned, which must be treated and demolished as if they contained hazardous material.)
- $10,600 The average cost for the Land Bank to demolish a home
- property inspections & surveys: $300-$600
- abatement and disposal of hazardous materials: up to $15,000
- utility costs (disconnecting, etc..): $250-$600
- demolition permit: $75-$350
- structure & mandatory basement removal: $2300-$25,000
- mandatory backfill with clean soil & initial site grading: $1200-$2000
- final grade, seeding & mulching: $500-$750
- 3000 The number of structures the Land Bank has torn down in Flint since 2003.
The Language of Blight
- reinvestment neighborhoods: areas near schools with recent investments in housing through the Federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (www.portal.hud.gov)
- tipping-point neighborhoods: are neighborhoods with vacancy rates of less than 20% and have recently experienced an increase in vacancies and foreclosures
- buffer areas: surround reinvestment and tipping-point neighborhoods; and include neighborhoods with higher vacancy rates than adjacent areas targeted for demolition
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| Flint Demolition Map 2013
Some sobering facts and figures, eh?
Until next time,
Robin in Flint
Learn more about Flint at www.cityofflint.com * additional resource: Flint Journal www.mlive.com/flint article by Dominic Adams (dadams@mlive.com) dated 10/27/13 |
Purple = tipping point neighborhoodsBlue = reinvestment neighborhoods
Light Green = buffer area neighbor hoods
<--------- I live in a buffer area, the lower part of the green area just to the right of the Flint River (the big river in the middle)
*Dark Green = key corridor neighborhoods in critical need of demolition.
