Photo by Abby Hoover
After multiple trips back to the drawing board, Kansas City’s first small shelter community for the unhoused was introduced on April 28.
Merging KC, led by Houston DeFoe, is heading up the project that brings together resources from across the city, including local government, to provide meaningful transitional housing to Kansas City’s homeless population.
No official location has been announced for the community, known as Verge. The community will initially have 60 64-square-foot shelters and five 100-square-foot shelters, bathroom and shower facilities, a community space, and office for the case workers, volunteers and medical staff. They can be assembled anywhere there’s flat ground.