Since 2009, nearly 60 abandoned or foreclosed homes in Hall County have been purchased, renovated and sold to low-income families under the federal grant-funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program. “This grant has been successful over the years,” County Administrator Randy Knighton said. But an annual audit revealed that the program was running a $1.3 million deficit at the end of the 2014 fiscal year last summer, with general fund tax dollars covering the shortfall.