Foreclosure crisis creates thousands more vacant buildings in KC
5 Oct 2009 - Michael Mansur | The Kansas City Star
Following the publication of a Forbes magazine article which named Kansas City the nation's most "abandoned city," local leaders renew their focus on the growing number of vacant buildings in Kansas City's urban core neighborhoods. Julie Porter, executive director of the Greater Kansas City LISC, is quoted.
Fueled by the foreclosure crisis, the number of vacant buildings in Kansas City has spread like the real estate version of a pandemic flu.
In just one year, city officials say, the number has exploded by 2,000 to more than 7,500 empty or abandoned structures. That figure doesn’t include thousands of empty lots. Continued [+]...
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