Celia Hack
News ReporterCelia Hack is a general assignment reporter for KMUW. Before KMUW, she worked at The Wichita Beacon covering local government and as a freelancer for The Shawnee Mission Post and the Kansas Leadership Center’s The Journal. She is originally from Westwood, Kansas, but Wichita is her home now.
Celia can be reached by email at celiahack@kmuw.org.
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Sedgwick County struggled with staffing levels, especially in public safety departments, after the pandemic. In response, the county poured millions of dollars into increased compensation. -
The for-profit and nonprofit developers will ultimately sell or rent the homes to low-income households. -
Landlords, tenants and housing assistance nonprofits say inflation, rising rents and the end of pandemic assistance contributed to the increase in filings. -
Is dry the new normal? Botanica reduces water use to deal with drought – and prep for climate changeBotanica is exempt from the city’s outdoor water usage restrictions but is attempting to cut back by 10% anyway. -
Rents in Wichita have risen in recent years. That’s not expected to slow down soon. -
The rules are stricter than what had been proposed by a local planning committee, but slightly more lenient than a set of regulations that the commission considered last week. -
The city of Wichita set aside $5 million in COVID recovery money for an Affordable Housing Fund, which is meant to fund the renovation of public housing units. The city is currently selling its single-family public housing units.
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The commission plans to vote on the new regulations next Wednesday. -
The Republican primary campaign between Stephanie Wise and Greg Ferris got heated near the election, with PACs putting thousands of dollars into support for Ferris. -
About one-third of the city’s 352 single-family public housing units were still occupied as of last December. The city is offering housing vouchers to the tenants who have to move.
