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Posts Tagged ‘Affordable Housing’

Age of Coronavirus: KC Area Far Short Of Space For Homeless During Pandemic

By | March 30, 2020 | 0
two hope faith staffers wheel in some donated orange juice

The three main counties in the Kansas City area — Wyandotte and Johnson in Kansas, and Jackson in Missouri — would have to boost bed capacity for the homeless by about 60% virtually overnight as the coronavirus begins to peak.

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Downtown Homeless Shelter On Brink of Closure

By | February 27, 2020 | 0
homeless shelter resident Matthew Hamblin

reStart’s 90-bed downtown homeless facility is on the brink of closure unless it gets a last-minute financial bailout.

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Putting a Human Face On The Housing Affordability Debate

By | January 2, 2020 | 0
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Kansas City area community leaders are grappling with how to encourage housing affordability.

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Developer Proposes Big Affordable Housing Project Near Downtown

By | November 22, 2019 | 0
Maxus Properties wants to redevelop 11 buildings along the west side of The Paseo as affordable housing.

Maxus Properties plans to redevelop 11 deteriorated apartment buildings along The Paseo just east of downtown Kansas City into 197 affordable apartments.

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Beautifying KC’s Low-Income Housing

By | June 18, 2019 | 0
Julia Cole, Ripple Effect

For Kansas City-based artist Julia Cole, housing for the poorest in town shouldn’t be ugly. So she asked curiousKC if something could be done.

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