Abandoned Housing Interested Organizations and Initiatives

[abjudah]

• Land Bank
• KCMHA
• City of Kansas City
  • City Development
  • City Planning
  • Neighborhoods & Housing Services
  • (pretty much all city departments)
• Kansas City Health Department
• KCMO School District
• KC NAC – Neighborhood Advisory Council
• LAWMO EDU
  • Adopt-a-neighborhood initiative (get list of law firms assigned to each neighborhood)
• HUD
• Urban Neighborhood Initiative (Vacant to Vibrant)
• Habitat for Humanity-Kansas City
• Land Trust of Jackson County
• Mid-America Regional Council
• Private Developers
  • Veterans Community Project (project interested)
  • Home Contained
  • Crispus Attucks Project (Possibly)
• KC Economic Development Corporation
• Blue Hills Community Services
• Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council
• Neighborhood Housing Services
• Northland Neighborhood Inc.
• Westside Housing Organization
• Historic East Neighborhoods Coalition
  • Boston Heights – Mount Hope
  • East 23rd St PAC
  • Key Coalition
  • Oak Park
  • Palestine Neighborhood
  • Santa Fe
  • Seven Oaks
  • South Round Top
  • Vineyard
  • Washington Wheatley
  • Wendell Phillips Neighborhood Association
• Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City
• Hispanic Economic Development Corporation
  • Want to establish a CID
• NeighborWorks America
• Community Housing of Wyandotte County (KS) (CHWC, Inc.)
• CCP – Center for Community Progress
• UMKC Quiet Title Clinic
• UMKC Bloch School – Urban Planning
• Green Impact Zone
• Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC)
• Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (LCRA)
• Historic KC (potential testers)
• UMKC School of Urban Design
  • Jake Wagner
• Middle Blue River Urban Waters Federal Partnership & EPA Region 7
  • Roberta Vogel-Leutung
  • Interested in: creating or showing the value of green space in the context of vacant lots, for multiple uses. This could be a map showing connectivity of green spaces. She indicated that users would be The Heartland Conservancy, Parks Department, and neighborhoods.
• Additional Data points:
  • Water Services
  • Jackson County Property Tax Assessor
  • KC Open Data (dangerous buildings, nuisance, etc.)

[abjudah]

Started list

[abjudah]

Added Vacant Land Task Force

[zmon]

Should we add

• Historic KC would have potential testers and may have persons that have an opinion on this process.
• UMKC School of Urban Design could potentially introduce us to potential testers. Jake Wagner is the contact.

[zmon]

I met with Roberta Vogel-Leutung of Middle Blue River Urban Waters Federal Partnership & EPA Region 7 on Friday Jan 22nd. She has uses for vacant properties for using them as bridges between other green space. She is connected with UNI. She is interested in:

Creating or showing the value of green space in the context of vacant lots, for multiple uses. This could be a map showing connectivity of green spaces.

She indicated that users would be The Heartland Conservancy, Parks Department, and neighborhoods.

[abjudah]

Added info from last two comments.