A struggling city program aimed at fixing and selling abandoned homes, predominantly in north St. Louis, may get a boost through newly proposed city legislation.
Through Prop NS, homes in the city land bank are nominated to be made structurally sound and put back on the market for sale to investors or prospective home renovators. But after five years, only 12 homes have been fully rehabbed through the program.
Taxpayers approved the fund in 2017, but nominations and evaluations of properties didn’t officially kick off until 2020 after legal troubles delayed its launch…