KC is short 64,000 units of affordable housing. Will new city plan make a dent?

Kansas City is joining a parade of cities that have launched efforts to help residents from being priced out of their neighborhoods by gentrification.

Fast-growing cities on the coasts and booming ones in the nation’s interior — Denver, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, among them — are trying to make their communities more liveable by adopting policies aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing.

Now Kansas City plans to up its game in that realm, building on existing efforts to make the city more affordable by adopting a formal “anti-displacement comprehensive plan.”…

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