Affordable Housing
Can Missouri Get Out Rental Assistance Fast Enough to Prevent Evictions?
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.
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.
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.
Kansas City’s Pandemic Housing Market is Increasingly Pricing Out Millennials
A new study found Kansas City is one of the housing markets where affordability has declined the most
Checking Out: Some Say Hotels Aren’t the Key to Sheltering the Unhoused
Efforts to temporarily shelter the unhoused in Kansas City area hotels and motels have faced a variety of challenges.