Below you can learn about some great Kansas City affordable housing success stories. We hope that these examples will serve a few valuable functions:
- To provide models for replication, and for expansion;
- To demonstrate the many creative and innovative approaches working;
- To shine a light on the difference an affordable home makes in a person’s life;
- To provide leads, contact info, for people providing excellent housing program(s);
- To highlight stories that address critical issues facing the Kansas City affordable housing community.
Do you have an initiative that we should include here? Please submit a Kansas City affordable housing success story.
Aging-in-Place—with Strength, Stability and Self-Reliance
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.
A Pragmatic, Collaborative Urban Development, Powered by the Neighborhood
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.
Rebuilding Together Kansas City’s Safe At Home program
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.
One Man’s Journey from Public Housing to a Home of His Own HAKC’s Family Self Sufficiency Program
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.
Urban Homesteading—A New Triple Bottom Line
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.
Mixed Income Housing Development a Win for Residents, for Neighborhood, for Developer
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.
EPEC Transitional Housing Project
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.