FLINT, MI – The excavator tore through the front section of the roof at 2010 Barth St. on Monday, Oct. 14, marking the start of $20.1 million in demolition work set for the city.

Watch the video to see how workers knock the home inward to prevent it from falling on neighboring homes.

The federally-funded project will raze more than 1,500 homes in the largest federally funded demolition project Flint has ever seen.

There are 32 properties that will be demolished beginning today and running through the week of Nov. 4.

It was the first demo work on Monday, Oct. 14, using $20.1 million to raze more than 1,500 homes.

Flint's funding is part of the $100 million allocated to the MSHDA in July by the U.S. Treasury from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program's Hardest Hit Fund, designed to help cities in states hit hardest by the housing crisis.

Dominic Adams is a reporter for MLive-Flint Journal. Contact him at dadams5@mlive.com or 810-241-8803. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.