Almost $2 million in federal grant money will be used to acquire, redevelop and encourage residents to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes in Suitland, according to Prince George’s County housing officials. Suitland was chosen for the county’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the $1.8 million to be spent on a specific target area, said project manager Rosalyn Clemens.

“While there are lots of neighborhoods … in the county with foreclosures, HUD wants us and Congress wants us to really put the funding in a tipping neighborhood — build on our assets, concentrate our resources, leverage what we’re doing to change the neighborhood,” she said.