Getting the Open Voucher Numbers Right in Kansas City Missouri
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas recently claimed that landlords’ legal challenges to the city’s Source of Income ordinance are preventing over 17,000 Kansas Citians with housing vouchers from finding stable housing. However, a deep dive into federal HUD data and discussions with local housing experts paint a much different picture.
Preliminary Injunction Against KCMO’s SOI Law
Federal court blocks Kansas City Missouri from enforcing part of a controversial ordinance requiring landlords to accept Section 8
Housing Providers Win Injunction Over Kansas City Missouri’s Source of Income Ordinance
Kansas City Housing providers win Preliminary Injuction over the Source Of Income Ordinance. A federal judge blocked the Kansas City Missouri Source Of Income Ordinance that required housing providers to not discriminate against potential renters based on their source of income. The injunction pertains to housing vouchers only. The City has not stopped all enforcement […]
MO HB 1086 Short Term Rental Taxes
MO HB 1086 Modifies provisions relating to the classification of certain residential real property used for short-term rentals Update 3/6/2025 Passed in the House and moving to the Senate Update: 2/13/2025: Our MO HB 1086 to protect the Residential Property Tax Classification is moving. There is a Hearing Scheduled for Monday, February 17th, at 4:30 […]
Julie Anderson on the Propsed Removal of the Cares Act Eviction Notice Requirement
The U.S. Congress is currently deliberating a bill that seeks to eliminate a lingering provision
from the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Respect State
Housing Laws Act, introduced by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), aims to repeal the federal
requirement mandating landlords to provide tenants with a 30-day notice before initiating
eviction proceedings.
UPDATE: Corporate Transparency Act
March 2, 2025On Sunday, March 2, 2025, the Secretary of the Treasury issued an announcement which dramatically changed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and how it will be enforced. To understand how this came about, I went back and read the opening sections of the CTA and noticed that repeatedly, the CTA put all the responsibility […]
KS HB 2099 Rental Inspections
AN ACT concerning private rental housing; requiring landlords of government-subsidized housing to submit to code inspection by cities or counties; amending K.S.A. 12-16,138 and repealing the existing section. Thanks to Kyle Niemann for Updating us on this Bill: ” will change the city inspections to allow for inspections on rental properties that accept government subsidies. […]
2025 Kansas SB100: Screening Issues, Evictions, Arrears
AN ACT concerning housing; relating to denial of housing or other adverse actions against tenants or prospective tenants on the basis of past evictions or rental arrears; prohibiting the reporting of evictions or rental arrears information by consumer reporting agencies or the use of such information by landlords for adverse action against tenants after three […]
Source of Income Law in Kansas City Missouri – Updates
Last August, Kansas City Missouri’s new Source of Income Law went into effect. It radically changed what you can and can’t do as you advertise your properties for rent, as you talk to potential renters, and as you screen your renters. It’s way more than the fact that you have to accept Housing Vouchers. After seeing several posts on Facebook this week that violate the law and a conversation with a few housing providers who just have no idea, we thought we should revisit this.
City of Independence Missouri Proposing Changes to the Rental Ready Program.
The City of Independence Missouri has Passed their Changes to Rental Ready For the past year, we have been getting reports from Matt Roberds in regards to the Independence Missouri Rental Ready Program. They have been discussing change to be made to the program. Many thanks to Brian and Michelle Winberry for their input at […]