Lawrence Affordable Housing Advisory Board members today identified topics they hope to see addressed in an upcoming housing study, from the university student rental market to new ways to fund housing initiatives.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence is asking community members to provide consultants with input about affordable housing and the community’s housing needs for a study in progress.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
A city co-sponsored debate on affordable housing was not a forum for steel to meet steel, but for community members to question how the city, county and community could ensure more people can afford to be housed.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Members of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board are recommending that $500,000 in city funding go toward a 121-unit project on the western edge of town.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence is seeking community feedback on a draft policy that details how the city will define and invest in affordable housing projects, what criteria developers must meet and more.
Cuyler Dunn/Lawrence Times
Collaboration was the common theme Monday evening as supporters and community members gathered at the corner of Ninth and Tennessee streets to break ground on the Hope Project affordable housing development.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence is doling out $1.2 million from its sales tax coffers for affordable housing and housing-adjacent projects. New this year will be a community educator to help renters learn their rights.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
With years of housing insecurity and discrimination behind her, Christina Gentry is now chair of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board. In that role and other capacities, she strives to help folks who are now in the same space she was in not too long ago.
A new proposed development would replace a downtown parking lot with a six-story building comprising more than 100 units of affordable housing.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider approving the sale of the district’s former East Heights Elementary School property to develop affordable single-family homes.
