The KC Tenant Meeting I attended didn’t have MAGA hats, but it was a generally diverse group with different motivations for being there.Black women were among the most affected eviction, both local and national. There was a white man who started out with an acknowledgment of privilege to say anything. And then there was the home bankruptcy kid whose faith in the American Dream was shattered when a family foreclosure followed a string of moves.
During a tenant association meeting in the increasingly gentrified Midtown area, I met an economics professor who had come because he wanted to better understand housing issues. Later, at a meeting in the Section 8 building on the other side of Ave.—a long line of black and white residents in the city—several attendees were seated in wheelchairs, and one was recently on the bridge. said he slept under
Lots of little friction. At a recent conference, a young man mentioned “confinement” and Charity simply replied, “Are you talking about prison?”
This diversity is, unintentionally, a policy conundrum addressed by Mayor Lucas and other officials, with more people turning to governments for help with housing.
Developers across the country have mostly built high-end units for the past decade.Founder Eli Unger Mac propertiesBased in Englewood, New Jersey, he owns about 9,000 apartments, including 2,000 in Kansas City.The surest way to make money now that development costs are so high is to cut the cost of rent. It is to build apartments for tenants who see it as “a matter of curiosity.”
This leaves two groups behind.
“People who consider themselves middle class, feeling anxious and pressured as rents rise faster than incomes, and the most vulnerable in our society, developers cannot provide without huge subsidies. People in dire need of housing,” Anger said. “As a citizen, I am totally fine with higher taxes in order to provide well-managed housing for those who cannot afford it. is not going to unilaterally say, ‘I will cut my income to meet this goal.'”
Caught in a housing problem that is growing faster than local budgets, civil servants inevitably try to solve both problems at once, pitting the middle class against families living on minimum wages or fixed incomes. This was the crux of the “Sister Act” protest.