Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas on Tuesday pressed for city officials to have more say over how money is spent on homelessness prevention programs after The Star reported on a pair of allegations leveled against a local nonprofit leader tied to a federal criminal probe.
Lucas, during a lengthy budget hearing inside City Hall, offered an amendment that would have given the city’s housing director and City Council members more oversight over how the city provides funding to homelessness prevention services.
“I read a newspaper piece today about homelessness prevention services and some of the ambiguities. I would like to have a cleaner understanding of just how much we’re spending in the services,” Lucas said during the hearing. “If somebody asked, ‘how much are we spending on homelessness prevention, homelessness services,’ I don’t know what the answer is right now.”…