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Posts Tagged ‘Affordable Housing’

Can Missouri Get Out Rental Assistance Fast Enough to Prevent Evictions?

By | July 7, 2021 | 0
KC Tenants at Jackson County Circuit Court

Missouri has hundreds of millions of dollars in rental assistance available. But it’s unclear whether it can dispense those funds fast enough to help Missourians avoid evictions.

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Can $1 Houses Help the Unhoused in Kansas City?

By | July 7, 2021 | 0
code enforcement officer DeJuan Carpenter removes screws from the piece of wood blocking entry to 2404 Monroe Ave., a vacant home in the Land Bank Program. (Cody Boston | Flatland)

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.

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How One Kansas City Neighborhood Is Transforming Its Dangerous And Abandoned Buildings

By | June 29, 2021 | 0
The home on 4401 E. Ninth St. used to be on Kansas City's dangerous buildings list until the Lykins Neighborhood Association acquired the property through Missouri's Abandoned Housing Act. It's now being renovated into a livable home.

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.

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Kansas City’s Pandemic Housing Market is Increasingly Pricing Out Millennials

By | June 16, 2021 | 0
Travis Stull in front of his home in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. Stull bought his home in April.

A new study found Kansas City is one of the housing markets where affordability has declined the most

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Checking Out: Some Say Hotels Aren’t the Key to Sheltering the Unhoused

By | May 21, 2021 | 0

Efforts to temporarily shelter the unhoused in Kansas City area hotels and motels have faced a variety of challenges.

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