Regional Housing Fund Update webinar presented by Josh Akers from the Mid-America Regional Council, Evan Absher from Folks Capital, Amanda Wilson from LISC Greater Kansas City and Katie Killen also […]

The Greater Kansas City Regional Housing Partnership’s (RHP) newsletter spotlights important housing news from around the region. This newsletter features efforts by local leaders and community stakeholders to increase access […]

Lack of supply pushes housing prices and rents higher Housing production in the Kansas City region has not recovered from the Great Recession that began in 2007 and ended in […]

Housing is one of the basic necessities of life. Families thrive when they can afford to live in high-quality homes in safe neighborhoods. Good housing is the foundation for sustainable, […]

Minor home repair is a critical but often overlooked means to combat displacement, maintain a home’s value that can be passed on next generation, ensure a safe and healthy living […]

The Greater Kansas City Regional Housing Partnership’s (RHP) newsletter spotlights important housing news from around the region. This newsletter features efforts by local leaders and community stakeholders to increase access to and preserve quality, […]

High mortgage rates have pushed investors to buy more low-cost homes than ever before, according to a new analysis by real estate firm Redfin Corp. Read more on the Kansas [...]

Created to be a community resource that empowers data-driven decision-making and planning across the Kansas City region, the Housing Data Hub pulls from multiple data sources to provide users with [...]

The RHP is partnering with Folks Capital and their team, including KCCLT, on a regional housing fund concept. Consultants have been in discussions with local governments and foundations gathering initial [...]

The Greater Kansas City Regional Housing Partnership’s (RHP) newsletter spotlights important housing news from around the region. This newsletter features efforts by local leaders and community stakeholders to increase access to and preserve quality, […]

Approximately 100 community development organizations; multifamily, single-family, nonprofit and for-profit developers; housing authorities; and other community partners from across the region participated in a needs assessment on challenges to affordable [...]

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed in 2022, represents the largest federal clean energy investment in history. IRA provides billions of dollars in funding through direct spending and tax credits that can be used to preserve and retrofit affordable housing, reduce energy costs, and increase community resilience. It will provide $369 billion for investments in climate resilience, energy security programs, and efficiency improvements and a total of $25 billion that is directly targeted to, or can be leveraged, for affordable housing.

All across the U.S., states are experiencing a crisis-level shortage of affordable housing. The National Low Income Housing Coalition reports that nationally, there is a need for more than 7 million affordable housing units, while between 4.3 million and 5 million new homes are needed, according to Zillow and Realtor.com, respectively. Experiments occurring across the country on 3D printed homes offer an intriguing approach to help address the issue.

Working to increase homeownership opportunities among people of color, CHES, Inc., a nonprofit financial empowerment organization, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), area real estate professionals, brokers, financial institutions and developers joined forces in September to promote the benefits of homebuyer education services provided by HUD-certified housing counselors.

New research from the Regional Housing Partnership explores why the Kansas City region may be losing its long-touted housing affordability advantage and how the mismatch between where jobs and affordable housing are located is creating significant challenges for region’s low- and moderate-income households.

This year’s Kansas Housing Conference highlighted Johnson County’s success launching a multiyear, multipronged initiative that identified safe, attainable housing as the foundation for healthy communities.

The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) has prepared an application to submit to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) grant program (FR-6700-N-98).

In June’s Community Wise Podcast, LISC discusses the different generational approaches to home ownership. Millennials — who are roughly ages 27 to 42 — are in their prime homebuying years and now make up nearly 50% of homebuyers, the most of any generation.

Affordable housing is in short supply all over the country, and the Kansas City area is no exception. As stakeholders work to find remedies, Regional Housing Partnership (RHP), convened and coordinated by the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and LISC Greater Kansas City is equipping  them with information to help with the task.

A toolkit of social media graphics, rack cards, fact sheets and talking points is now available for communities, organizations and property owners who would like to promote the KCHousingLocator.com service to their residents and constituents.

The millennial generation, defined as individuals born between 1981 and 1996, face a different set of life challenges than their peers in the baby boom or GenX demographic groups.

Data show that the Kansas City region faces an affordable housing gap of almost 64,000 units for low-income renters. MARC’s housing program explores who this reality most acutely impacts, including people of color, households with young children, households with aging adults and people with disabilities.

A large part of the mission of LISC Greater Kansas City is related to creating and supporting affordable housing initiatives.

A lack of nearly 64,000 affordable rental units in the Kansas City region leaves low-income households with limited options.

The relationship between race and housing in the United States has a long past and a lasting impact. Understanding this relationship in the Kansas City region is critical for comprehending the housing patterns we have today and planning a more equitable tomorrow.

The Home Front is a podcast that focuses on housing policy priorities, advocacy by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and partners.

Rental and single-family housing costs and supply show early indications of a changing direction. Is this a blip or will a trend towards a more affordable market emerge?

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) has been the federal government’s primary policy tool for the development of affordable rental housing since the late 1980s. This program is a huge contributor to the stock of affordable rental units in the Kansas City region and nationwide.

Two studies examine workforce housing challenges in the Kansas City region. Both identify the need to increase the supply of affordable, quality housing options all residents.

Join The National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA) as they dig into various topics around affordable housing and share emerging best practices across the country.

Two new affordable housing initiatives will be part of the city’s efforts to support Kansas Citians experiencing homelessness, as announced today.

Kansas City planning staff on Tuesday gave Lux Living administrative approval for its $50 million Edison development plan, entailing a new five-story, 228-apartment building.

Community Builders of Kansas City is set to begin a $12.6 million project to fix up 80 housing units on the city’s East Side to provide affordable housing.

“Barndominiums” have become a hot seller for Worldwide Steel Buildings, helping the Peculiar-based manufacturer build even more growth. Last year, revenue climbed to $24.3 million, a 47% increase from 2019.

A local nonprofit with an international footprint is designing and preparing to build its first project in Kansas City, expanding its footprint to address a particularly vulnerable subsection of the area’s homeless population […]

If you think the U.S. housing market is behaving very, very strangely these days, that probably means you’re paying attention.

New York state could buy financially distressed office buildings and hotels and convert them into affordable housing.

Maxus Properties Inc. proposes a revamp of the tower at 500 E. Eighth St. as the Bell Haus Apartments, a $60 million undertaking with a number of multifamily units and coworking space.

A Kansas City-based startup has checked off a notable milestone – debuting the nation’s first group of 3D-printed homes for sale.

Help for families struggling financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic is available through a new program launched by the City of Kansas City.

Renters’ Experiences During COVID-19 provides new evidence of how the pandemic has increased housing insecurity among renters and how households have navigated this ongoing hardship.

Recent Kansas City legislation shaves a decade off the city’s maximum term for property tax abatements, exemptions or redirections, while constricting the scope of these incentives.

In recent years Truman Heritage Habitat for Humanity has been making an important shift from the traditional model of new home construction to an approach that gives equal attention to neighborhood and housing reinvestment.

Midtown Redevelopment Partners is knee-deep in a $161.9 million effort that its visionaries say will transform a two-and-a-half block area in Kansas City.

A development partnership for months has been gearing up to bring a $54.5 million multifamily development with affordable housing set-asides.

The Lykins Community Development Project focuses community development resources in a promising urban core neighborhood to greatly increase the positive impact of development. The Lykins Neighborhood is located 2.5 miles east of downtown Kansas City.

Since this local nonprofit began in 2001, Rebuilding Together Kansas City has been repairing homes and rebuilding lives of disadvantaged families in the Kansas City area.

Nine years ago, George was living in poverty in an apartment paid for with a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV, formerly Section 8). What was the catalyst for this change? The Housing Authority of Kansas City’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program.

The search for more affordable housing usually smacks into the big elephant; where will all the money come from? One often overlooked strategy, urban homesteading, can skip over that problem entirely, and as added bonuses remove neighborhood blight and strengthen the neighborhood social fabric. It’s a win, win, win.

Villa del Sol, developed by McCormack Baron and Salazar in 1997 has been a victory for the neighborhood residents, for the residents of the development, for the developer and its many sponsors.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury posted a list of governments to receive grants through the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program.

Enterprise, HUD, and Fannie Mae held a joint webinar to unveil the Ready to Respond: Business Continuity Toolkit, created to equip multifamily affordable building owners and managers with a plan […]

United Community Services of Johnson County released its five-year census report on poverty and the results point to a housing market that has yet to improve.

One of Bartle Hall’s exhibition rooms will provide shelter for the homeless until March 31.

Kansas City, Missouri may require developers receiving tax incentives to set aside units as affordable housing.

This year, the COVID-19 pandemic, a powerful movement for racial justice, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to bring the nation’s longstanding housing challenges to the fore. However, historically low interest rates, strength in the for-sale market and in homebuilding could lead a broader US economic recovery.

The goal of this joint Brookings-LOCUS initiative is to facilitate a more transparent and inclusive conversation in real estate that goes beyond talking to each other behind tiers of member-only paywalls.

A trio of bills propose plugging the state’s huge housing gap with commercial-to-residential conversions of strip malls. New research suggests it could work.

Empowering the Parent to Empower the Child (EPEC) is a 501(c)3 organization which utilizes an innovative model to address homelessness and generational poverty through its tuition-free job training program The Grooming Project.

The Kansas City Council considered an affordable housing requirement for developers several years ago, but the measure failed. Supporters are trying again.

Seven Kansas City-area affordable housing projects collectively receive $2.83 million in state and $4.53 million in federal LIHTC dollars during this 2020 funding round from the Missouri Housing Development Commission.

As tens of millions of people face eviction across the country, a new partnership has been established to assist low-income families and communities of color, who are being disproportionately impacted by the current affordable housing crisis.

The Federal Reserve, following an earlier split between banking regulators, took an initial step to rewrite rules for hundreds of billions of dollars in lending and investment in lower-income neighborhoods.