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UMKC professor: Solution to affordable housing is restoring older apartment buildings


UMKC professor: Solution to affordable housing is restoring older apartment buildings
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Now that Kansas City s hotel initiative to help the homeless has ended, the question becomes what s next for people in need of permanent housing?
Kansas City said that more than 50 of the hotel residents found employment. and for some, it now turns to affordable housing.Sign up for our Newsletters
A professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City said he believes the answer is right in front of us.
There s about 45,000 of those units throughout Kansas City, Missouri, said Jacob Wagner, of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. ....

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In Kansas City, a wave of evictions could push gun violence to new extremes this year


In Kansas City, a wave of evictions could push gun violence to new extremes this year
Housing problems and gun violence go hand in hand, experts say. And in Kansas City, both may be about to get even worse
May 25, 2021
It was boarded up, filled with trash, everything in complete disarray.
But Murrell, a part-time home renovator, knows this house on a corner of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City’s Washington-Wheatley neighborhood can be a happy home again. He spent his early childhood nearby and remembers the families who lived here.
Now 42, Murrell has seen the neighborhood hollowed out over the years by a historic loss of Black homeownership, high rates of evictions, and deteriorating housing conditions. ....

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