Quality of Life Plans
NeighborhoodsNOW program concentrated resources in five communities in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas where, beginning in 2006, residents worked together to complete visionary “Quality of Life Plans” for their neighborhoods. These plans served as the guiding document for neighborhood revitalization. In 2016, LISC worked with resident and neighborhood stakeholders to update their Quality of Life Plans, identify the neighborhood’s top three goals for the next three years, and identify the partners and stakeholders needed to accelerate implementation of these goals.
- Expand home repair program
- Increase youth and young family engagement
- Expand new commercial and residential development
- Expand physical development and housing
- Advance neighborhood engagement and communication efforts
- Increase organizational capacity
- A clean, safe and attractive Downtown KCK
- Foster small business growth
- Increase housing choices
- Build organizational capacity and leverage programmatic strengths
- Advance residential and commercial development along the 39th Street corridor
- Higher resident engagement that supports and sustains a thriving neighborhood
- Increase usability and impact of Concourse Park and Cliff Drive
- Rebrand and develop infrastructure to encourage residential and commercial development
- Diversify efforts to improve neighborhood safety
Today, NeighborhoodsNOW has evolved from a program to a platform to empower people, transforms places, support enterprises, and drive systems change in housing, community health and safety, and family income and wealth building strategies within three historically disinvested geographic areas (Troost-Prospect corridor and Historic Northeast in Kansas City, Missouri and the Greater downtown Kansas City, Kansas area).
