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Kansas City's Right to Counsel program provides free legal representation to tenants who end up in eviction court. Plus, rumors of a Royals move have city and county lawmakers — and local unions — up in arms.
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Over the past six months, rent prices have decreased in every region except for the Midwest, where a housing shortage and a competitive market are keeping rent high.
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The announcement that hearings will be pushed to an indefinite time comes days after an audit slammed the assessment process and after a lawsuit from the Missouri Attorney General.
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced earlier this year that it would foreclose on Parade Park, a townhouse complex that once was a symbol of pride for Black Kansas City families. Under the plan, Kansas City would buy the properties from HUD and then transfer them to a private developer to rehabilitate.
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An ordinance proposed by Mayor Quinton Lucas would make it illegal for landlords to refuse to rent to tenants because they're on the Housing Choice Voucher Program, known as Section 8. If passed, the law would be among the nation's strongest bans on source-of-income discrimination.
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Kansas City, Kansas, currently has no permanent emergency shelter where people can stay for the night and find showers, hot meals and referrals for health care — even as homelessness increases on that side of the metro.
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The citywide tenants union KC Tenants helped craft the proposed legislation, which would make it illegal for landlords to refuse to rent to someone based on their source of income.
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A dozen projects have received $11 million in Housing Trust fund support, all of them dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing.
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The complaints were filed nearly two months ago by resident Mike Sullinger, who has been a frequent critic of the council amid the ongoing debate over affordable housing and zoning changes. Sullinger claimed that the mayor and half the council had conflicts of interest, but members unanimously voted to dismiss the complaints.
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The Missouri General Assembly passed a law in 2017 making it harder for people to prove housing discrimination cases. Because that violates the federal Fair Housing Act, Missouri loses hundreds of thousands of dollars every year that would have been used to investigate discrimination complaints.
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University City-based Matthew Chase is one of the busiest eviction attorneys in the St. Louis region — as evidenced by the fact that many of the area’s biggest landlords have picked them as their go-to guy. Chase files around 450 eviction cases in a typical month.
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Eviction filings have always come fast and cheap in Missouri — a legacy of Missouri’s long history of weak tenant protections. Now, eviction filings are happening faster than before the pandemic.