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How Do Housing Trust Funds Work? Here Are Three Examples From Across The Country

By | March 9, 2022 |

Although Kansas City established a housing trust fund to support affordable housing in 2018, it didn’t have any funding until recently. Here’s a look at how some other cities manage their housing trust funds.

Houseless Hotel: A ‘Housing First’ Solution for Those Without Homes

By | January 27, 2022 |

Lotus Care House is a 1970s era hotel that is being converted into transitional housing and a service center for the homeless. It is part of a “housing first” approach to addressing homelessness in Kansas City.

Dilemma for the Houseless: ‘Where Do I Keep My Stuff?’

By | January 12, 2022 |

Plastic bins that Kansas City had available to begin a pilot program offering safe storage for houseless people. Fifty new, similar ones are arriving this week.

Storage space, somewhere to securely keep personal belongings, has long been an issue for houseless people. A new program in Kansas City hopes to address that problem.

Proposed City Market Apartment Tower Hailed as Future Development Model

By | January 11, 2022 |

Flaherty & Collins is proposing a 13-story apartment tower for a parking lot immediately west of the City Market.

A 13-story, 300-unit apartment development planned for just west of the City Market was endorsed by a Port KC committee Monday after being hailed by the city manager as a model for future downtown development.