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[7] [2] This is the first rent strike in Kansas City since 1980, and described by tenants as the first ever targeting the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] Tara Raghuveer, director of the union, stated they were targeting the American federal government as a way to criticize the systemic ...
Two KC area tenant unions are on strike, withholding a combined $60,000 in rent over poor living conditions, while demanding rent caps, new ownership, and lease reforms.
Utility companies are violating Kansas City street repair rules, audit finds Toriano Porter/The Star Reality Check is a Star series holding those in power to account and shining a light on their ...
Opposition from landlords. Landlords were not part of the ordinance drafting process, and many are pushing back. They say they should have a right to refuse to participate in the voluntary federal ...
KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest, conviction or eviction."
The art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building was the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976 and tallest in Kansas City until 1986 and is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at ...
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The electric utility was placed in operation in late 1912. [3] Today, BPU operates as a not-for-profit municipal utility and is an administrative arm of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas. It is self-governed, with an elected six-member board of directors.