CCO’s work in housing focuses on keeping people in their homes and increasing the quantity and quality of affordable housing in Kansas City. Our grassroots leaders work with city officials for targeted neighborhood home repair funding, transparency and accountability in local government housing authorities, and fair lending practices.
Since 2005, CCO has leverage over $7.5 million through tax increment financing forneighborhood targeted home repair in Blue Hills, Ivanhoe and Triblenhim/Walnut Grove.CCO also helped develop the Kansas City Home Asset Recovery Program (KC HARP) that brought $1.2 million in home repairs to one hundred homeowners in Blue Hills, Washington-Wheatley, 49/63 and Ruskin neighborhoods. In 2009 CCO worked with city council members to design and implement two city ordinances to protect low-income families from predatory mortgage lenders and absentee owners and prevent future foreclosures.
