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The legislation would ensure landlords have a free hand to request criminal records from prospective tenants. It would gut the core of the Kansas City ordinance.
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."
Renters who think a landlord has denied them housing based on how they planned to pay the rent or another factor protected by the new law will be able to submit a complaint with the city’s civil ...
The federal Office of Public & Indian Housing reports that in September, nearly 86% of the 8,400 vouchers issued by the Housing Authority of Kansas City were being accepted by landlords.
[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 ...
Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70 (1995), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct intentional racial discrimination in Kansas City schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.
A tenant was awarded more than $19,000 in a lawsuit against a Kansas City apartment complex that was infested with cockroaches. Litigation began in June 2023 when Quality Hill Apartments filed an ...
As the first major desegregation case in Kansas City, the deliberations stirred the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Plans have been made to renovate the entire building to accommodate new, nonfederal tenants as part of an upcoming outlease program. [2] The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...