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From security deposits to repairs, what you should know about your tenant rights in Kansas City
Whether you’re a long-term renter, a person looking for your first apartment or someone getting ready to re-sign your lease, here’s what you need to know about tenant protections in Kansas City.
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Kansas City’s pandemic housing market is increasingly pricing out millennials
For middle-class, millennial, first-time buyers, the cutthroat housing market is making the American dream of owning a home — often considered the best way to build wealth in this country — increasingly out of reach and unaffordable.
KC-based AMC sees stock soar and fall as it rides a Reddit wave
Audio-Reader · TheBeacon 6-8-21: KC Based AMC Sees Stocks Soar And Fall When 22-year-old Anthony Hugo first invested in AMC in February, he and his fellow Redditors were hoping to push the stock price over $8. On June 2, the price hit the moon at $72.62. The meteoric rise of Leawood, Kansas-based AMC Entertainment Holdings […]
Why KC Democrats say affordable housing should be part of infrastructure plan
As Senate Democrats and Republicans negotiate President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, the White House, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas call for housing to be considered infrastructure.
The pandemic program that helped Kansas City families stay connected
The pandemic-era program helps Kansas City area households cover the cost of their internet bill at a time when many essential functions, from work to doctor’s appointments to school, moved online.
Here’s a list of Kansas City’s outdoor dining spots.
Last May, Kansas City eased some of the requirements to make it easier for local businesses to apply for a permit to create an outdoor dining space on the street, sidewalk or a parking lot. The initiative was a success — since the restrictions were lifted, over 100 permit applications were approved for a street […]
Outdoor dining took off in KC during the pandemic. Is it here to stay?
The increase in al fresco dining comes after the City Council cut some of the red tape around creating an outdoor dining space on streets, sidewalks, parklets and even parking lots.
Dangerous and disinvested: The complicated business of transforming blighted buildings
The city’s process to take dangerous buildings off the list, either through renovation or demolition, can take years, leaving these dilapidated properties at risk of descending further into decay.
The new federal program that can help Kansas City families pay for internet
The $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, overseen by the Federal Communications Commission, will begin accepting applications May 12.
Tax breaks for developers cost every KCPS student $1,925 in 2019
Good Jobs First found that tax breaks approved through these programs resulted in $130 million in net foregone revenue in Missouri in fiscal year 2019, making it the state with the seventh greatest loss in the study’s findings.
Living with your parents because of the pandemic? In KC, it’s not unusual
In the past year, the resulting economic crises have pushed more people into multigenerational living — Generations United found that among those currently living in a multigenerational home, 57% say they are doing so because of the pandemic.
Kansas City clocks the fastest internet in the US — if you can afford it
Earlier this month, Google Fiber announced the arrival of its 2-gigabit service. The upgraded service is available in all neighborhoods that currently have access to Google Fiber’s services.
You need an ID to do just about anything. This KC nonprofit is helping unhoused people overcome that barrier.
For unhoused people, living without a valid photo ID — whether in the form of a driver’s license, a state-issued ID or a passport — is a major obstacle.
The KC Homeless Union met with Mayor Q for four days straight. Here’s what they agreed on.
Kansas City’s unhoused communities at City Hall and Camp 6ixx in Westport feared a camp sweep. Now, unhoused people are steps closer to short-term shelter and even long-term housing.
KC court’s pandemic program dismisses 5,000 warrants
Facing a backlog of cases from the coronavirus pandemic, the Kansas City Municipal Court was looking for a solution that could help manage that backlog while preparing the courthouse to start hearing cases in person as more people receive vaccines.
‘Where can we go?’: For Kansas City’s unhoused community, camp sweeps not the answer
For unhoused people in Kansas City, removal from an encampment means possibly losing their belongings and risking further displacement with no promise of permanent shelter.
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