NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Nashville is getting $4 million from the federal government to clean up and resell foreclosed homes.

The city has about 3,000 houses in foreclosure and some of them are in disrepair and can be neighborhood eyesores. The hardest hit area is south of downtown in Antioch.

Mike Clinard, Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency assistant director of community development, said their plan is to secure those properties and resell them to stabilize the neighborhoods.

The housing agency will administer the funds and will make an inventory of foreclosed homes.

The money will be available by early next year. Clinard said while $4 million is a good start, it won't be enough for all the homes in Nashville.

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