ORDINANCE NO. 260140
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Sponsor: Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw and Councilmember Johnathan Duncan
Establishing the Kansas City Housing Gateway Program; reducing previously appropriated funds in the General Fund by $1,000,000.00 and appropriating the same amount for the Kansas City Housing Gateway Program; directing the City Manager to establish an advisory board to provide strategic direction and ensure accountability for the implementation of the Kansas City Housing Gateway Program; directing the City Manager to report back to City Council within six (6) months with a comprehensive review of Kansas City's homeless responses system and recommendations; authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to enter into agreements necessary related to the Kansas City Housing Gateway Program; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date
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WHEREAS, City Council passed Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 231019 appropriating $1,000,000.00 to establish a Landlord Risk Mitigation Pilot Program to incentivize landlord participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program; and
WHEREAS, City Council passed Resolution No. 220865 adopting the Zero KC strategic plan to address homelessness and passed Ordinance No. 220866 established the Houseless Advisory Commission to advise the City Council on houseless issues
WHEREAS, City Council passed Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 250177 directing the City Manager to immediately and indefinitely pause the continuation of the Landlord Risk Mitigation Pilot Program or Property Owner Support Program until final resolution of the case Kennedy F. Jones, et al. v. City of Kansas City Missouri, Case No. 4:24-cv00649-RK; and
WHEREAS, Kansas City faces a worsening homelessness problem. Since 2018, unsheltered homelessness has increased by 168% with unsheltered homelessness accounting for 95.7% of chronic cases; and
WHEREAS, there is a current shortage of 64,000 a...
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