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While the program funds a variety of Local Options Sales Tax Amounts for
objectives, the goal is to reinvest in the Neighborhood Improvement Programs
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city’s neighborhoods, which includes those FY2020 FY2021 FY2022
with historic resources. All four categories
of funding can positively impact areas Blitz on $700,000 --- $500,000
of the community with designated local Blight
landmarks, historic districts, and culturally InvestDSM $2,674,396 $2,506,951 $5,000,165
significant places, but the Neighborhood
Improvements category most directly ION --- $55,599 $69,153
impacts the historic preservation program. Block
Explanations of specific programs within the Grant --- $229,250 $241,449
Neighborhood Improvement category are Challenge
provided on the following pages.
(Source: FY2022 Expenditure Report)

Blitz on Blight Blitz on Blight
Created in 2019 with the adoption of the
Local Option Sales tax, this program is a To learn more about the Blitz on Blight
proactive approach to identifying and program, visit the City’s Vacant Property
addressing nuisance properties. Blitz on and Unsafe Structure webpage:
Blight is designed to address structures that https://www.dsm.city/departments/
have deteriorated beyond repair, making neighborhood_services/vacant_
them uninhabitable. When a property is property_and_unsafe_structures.php
designated as a public nuisance, the City
will work with property owners who have a
solid proposal for rehabilitation in order to
avoid demolition.

In October 2022, the Blitz on Blight program
removed its 100th condemned structure
since its founding in July 2019, at a total, to-
date cost of $2.5 million .
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1 MILESTONE REACHED AS “BLITZ ON BLIGHT” GETS BACK
ON TRACK FOLLOWING COVID LULL. (n.d.). https://www.
dsm.city/news_detail_T2_R575.php

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