affordable housing

Steve Feilmeier, the former chief financial officer of Koch Inc., opened the social impact fund Wichita Affordable Housing LLC in 2024.

The city of Wichita created a land bank in 2021 to ease affordable housing development in the center of the city. But four years later, city staff have suggested dissolving it, saying it faces too many obstacles.

The bill proposes requiring courts to automatically seal certain eviction records and expunge others after two years.

Landlords, tenants and housing assistance nonprofits say inflation, rising rents and the end of pandemic assistance contributed to the increase in filings.

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.

Several local experts say the root of the housing shortage stems from the years after the 2008 recession, when new home construction tanked.

Some state representatives introduced a bill last year to increase regulations on these types of contracts.

Carla Mendez and Jacob Salas bought their first home in only three days, showing how competitive home buying can be in Wichita.

A retired woman struggles to find accessible, affordable housing illustrating the need for more such units in Wichita.

Forty-two people died in 2023 while experiencing or transitioning out of homelessness, according to community advocates and the Wichita Police Department.