KCMO supports luxury living space with tax breaks whilst urban core neighborhoods struggle to garner city services.
Even worse, the distribution of low-income housing in Kansas City presents a constant struggle betwixt access vs. neighborhood complaints and property value concerns.
Locals can talk all of these topics very soon:
Final Housing Meeting Set For June 18
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The last meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 18 at the Second Presbyterian Church, 318 East 55th St. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Five other meetings have already been held in south Kansas City, southeast Kansas City, the Historic Northeast, north of the river and on the city’s westside.
“We have received excellent citizen input during our initial meetings,” said John A. Wood, assistant city manager and director of the city’s Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department (NHSD). “A variety of topics, including the need for more affordable housing, have been discussed.”
You decide . . .
John woods is an idiot, he needs to be fired immediately, he was fired from Swope builders when he was in charge there, he ran that place into the ground just like he’s doing now with neighborhoods. Try having a conversation with this moron and you’ll see what I’m talking about
ReplyDeleteIt's all smoke and mirrors and bullshit, folks. The problem is Slie and the gang giving away taxpayer money to developers, lawyers and friends. Their solution is to raise our taxes. These "input meetings' are just more of the shit sandwich city leaders keep feeding us.
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^^^ I agree, this is all leading to more developers getting tax money then anything, John woods and his deputy director are sucking over 300 grand a year in payroll and he’s doing his best to get as much as he can and probably getting a job with one of these developers that’ll pay big bucks as a payback.
ReplyDeleteBut wouldn't our vaunted home town newspaper, the Star, investigate and reveal these inconsistencies?
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The poor poor. They think the libs are their champions and yet sLIE and his gang make it crystal clear where their loyalty and priorities really lie.
ReplyDeleteWe will be saved by the new MLK Blvd. and the blessing it will bring each year when the city sends a royalty check to the omnipresent King family, the dream is here for the taking.
ReplyDeleteYou will find in the years to come Kansas City Missouri will become an expensive place to live. That is why you see people driving Forty to fifty miles into the Metropolitan area to work look at I 49 even past Harrisonville Mo,OR 50 Highway east past Warrensburg Mo.OR I70,east Past Odessa. On there way home they stop and Pick up the Groceries at the Costco or Samsclub,Prices Chopper. Ect.
ReplyDeleteTeam Slie wants all of the blight removed from downtown and from around downtown.
ReplyDeleteWith the poor quality of the workmanship on the "luxury" apartments, the too high rents, the millenials already focused on suburban living, the crime rate, the constant sales tax increases, parking issues, and all the rest, it won't be very many years before Sly's downtown will become blighted itself.
ReplyDeleteA publicly-funded amusement park.