Housing
Can $1 Houses Help the Unhoused in Kansas City?
The Land Bank of Kansas City is offering vacant homes for $1 to help address homelessness. It’s unclear how many groups will step up to fix the houses to be occupied.
UMKC Proposing Student Housing, Retail by Planned Streetcar Terminus
By Kevin Collison A new UMKC master plan that calls for developing housing for 500 students along with retail space at the terminus of the planned streetcar route has been approved by the University of Missouri Board of Curators. The proposed development is part of a larger UMKC Master Plan 2021 for the Volker and…
UMKC Proposing Student Housing, Retail by Planned Streetcar Terminus
A new University of Missouri-Kansas City master plan calls for developing housing for 500 students along with retail space at the southern terminus of the planned KC Streetcar route.
How One Kansas City Neighborhood Is Transforming Its Dangerous And Abandoned Buildings
In northeast Kansas City, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has used Missouri’s Abandoned Housing Act to reclaim abandoned and dilapidated homes and turn them over to rehabbers for renovation. The results have been promising.
Samuel Rodgers Apartment Plan ‘Capstone’ of Paseo Gateway Redevelopment
By Kevin Collison A 62-unit apartment project is in the works for the Samuel D. Rodgers Health Center campus, the final phase of the Paseo Gateway redevelopment initiative that’s added more than 300 residences to the area, many of them affordable. The Samuel Rodgers Health and Wellness Campus project is planned for a five-acre site…