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Fewer than 10% of Kansas City's short-term rentals, like Airbnb and Vrbo, are licensed. Residents say that has damaged their quality of life and they want the city to do something about it.
It became the biggest city in the U.S. to eliminate fares system-wide in 2020. But Kansas City’s experience has some unique local factors that don’t necessarily point the way for other cities to follow suit.
If approved, Question 2 on the citywide ballot would authorize Kansas City to issue a $50 million bond, which could help fund more than 2,000 new affordable housing units. But the measure does not include continual funding for the city's housing trust fund.
The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council voted to approve a resolution that will designate a $50 million bond funding for affordable housing to the Housing Trust Fund Thursday.
KC Tenants disrupted the council meeting Thursday afternoon in protest of the ordinance.