Abstract
City planners, neighborhood groups and financial institutions, and other business partners need to develop a comprehensive plan to increase affordable housing for minorities and to integrate neighborhoods. Kansas City, Missouri is a city with a high potential for good housing for all of its citizens, but adequate housing continues to elude many of its black residents. Compared to other U.S. cities of similar size, Kansas City has good housing stock, but a large number of black people are suffering from a shortage of low rent housing. In addition, among Kansas Citians, blacks have the lowest quality housing stock. Two reasons for the deficit in housing for black Americans in Kansas City are demolitions among the low-rent housing stock and discrimination in housing rentals.
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Ibid., p. 17.
Frederic G. Reamer, “Affordable Housing Crisis in Social Work,”Social Work 34, 1 (January 1989), p. 6.
Barbara Shelly, “City Predicts 3,000 May Apply for Section 8 Aid,”The Kansas City Star (May 19, 1989).
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A Survey of Housing Discrimination in Kansas City, Missouri, prepared by the Kansas City human relations department (1988).
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Robertson, W.E.(. Housing for blacks: A challenge for kansas city. Rev Black Polit Econ 19, 195–209 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895344
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