On November 12, 2003, UMKC hosted a University & Community Forum on The Economic Value of Affordable Housing and Strong Neighborhoods. Anne Pasmanick, the Executive Director of the National Neighborhoods Coalition, was the featured keynote speaker.
In addition, four representatives from the Kansas City public and non-profit sectors provided comments and remarks about the issues facing neighborhoods today. Both a summary and a full transcript of each representative's comments are below.
Jim White, Senior Program Director, LISC of Greater Kansas City
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Jim Scott, President, Applied Urban Research Institute
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Margaret May, Executive Director, Ivanhoe Neighborhoods Council
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Ken Bacchus, President/CEO, Housing & Economic Development Financial Corporation
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Dr. Robyne Turner, former Schutte/Missouri Professor of Urban Affairs in the Cookingham Institute of Public Affairs, prepared a housing briefing paper for the forum, What we know about affordable housing and strong neighborhoods in the Kansas City urban core. This paper looks at a variety of data sources used by the public, private, and non-profit sectors in Kansas City and includes maps of housing, residents, and neighborhood conditions in the urban core of Kansas City.
You can read the paper here >>
Maps accompanying the paper are here >>
