LISC Kansas City Monthly Newsletter
For working parents, finding good care during the summer is costly and complicated, but Kansas City Public Schools and other local nonprofits can help. Summertime evokes nostalgic images of kids enjoying a break from school and spending lazy days riding bikes or hanging out with friends. In reality, summer vacation has become one more example of how growing inequality makes life harder for low to moderate income families. More [+]
While homeownership is important for building generational wealth, Angela Martellaro wants people to understand that it also meets a more basic need. Those at median- or high-income levels can generally assume they’ll find housing that at least is safe and livable, she said. “But for folks who are lower income, much of the rental housing that is available is absolutely deplorable. Most folks are not seeing these real conditions.” More [+]
LISC Greater Kansas City seeks a self-motivated and qualified individual passionate about affordable housing, equitable development, and safe and healthy neighborhoods for a Program Officer position. This individual will be responsible for the daily coordination and management of the Regional Housing Partnership Initiative and LISC's capacity building grant program, including developing new strategies and metrics, relationship management, and program/project management to support aspects of LISC’s capacity building, health, and housing work. More [+]
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The LISC Greater Kansas City team stayed very busy throughout the month of June. We're highlighting a few of the many events and meetings that we participated in, as we continually strive to amplify the work of our communities and partners. We were pleased to join Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Mayor Quinton Lucas, the Housing Authority of Kansas City, Brinshore Development, and over 100 attendees at the ribbon cutting of the new Sam Rodgers Place apartments, we attended the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) Regional Assembly and Leadership awards luncheon, and we joined U.S. Department of Commerce Under Secretary Eric Morrissette during his visit to our region. Just to name a few. More [+]
RFP Deadline July 17th
The Affordable Housing Trust Fund is a city-wide fund to promote, preserve and create long term affordable housing for extremely low, very low- and moderate-income households. The Fund preserves the affordability of neighborhoods and prevents large scale displacement of residents by providing homeownership opportunities and preserving affordable housing through the rehabilitation of small and large rental housing developments. The Fund also seeks to remove blight and substandard properties through the renovation of vacant properties.
Submit your Housing Trust Fund Round 4 Proposal