Our Purpose: The Wichita Journalism Collaborative is a coalition of newsrooms and community partners joining forces to help meet news and information needs in and around Wichita. We aim to support and enhance quality local journalism.
We all desire a place to call home, but is affordable, quality housing out of reach for many Wichitans? The members of the Wichita Journalism Collaborative are working together to investigate and report on this issue. Learn more
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Wichita City Council to vote on municipal IDs Tuesday
Advocates have pushed officials to create a city-wide ID to lower barriers for the homeless…
Rising property valuations spark questions, anxiety over taxes. Here are some answers
By Chance Swaim/The Wichita Eagle If you learned that something you own is actually worth substantially…
A Kansas tax credit can help build thousands of affordable homes. Lawmakers want to cut it
KMUW | By Dylan Lysen, Daniel Caudill Critics of the affordable housing tax credit argue it is…
Meet the Board Chair of MAC Board Inc., the Wichita nonprofit running the city’s homeless center
MAC Board Inc. will take over operations of the current emergency winter shelter on April…
City solution for abandoned homes not working as planned
By: Zena Taher / KSN WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – What was once thought of as a…
‘Spinning our wheels’: Bureaucratic, funding obstacles hinder Wichita land bank
By Celia Hack / KMUW The city of Wichita created a land bank in 2021…
Man turns loss into gain for housing relief effort
By Sherry Graham Howerton / The Active Age When tragedy strikes, the people affected are…
Kansas sought homelessness success stories. It stumbled on a cautionary tale, too.
A look into how Bergen County, New Jersey, became a Kansas role model for ending…
Kansas has a housing shortage. One legislator is suggesting prison labor as a solution
By Celia Hack/KMUW Kansas has a lack of housing in both rural and urban areas. The…
Most homeowners in Sedgwick County will see increase in tax appraisal. Here are details
By Kylie Cameron/The Wichita Eagle Tax valuations will increase for 87% of homeowners in Sedgwick County…
‘I would’ve died without the Union Rescue Mission’: Helping people in the cold
By Derek Lytle/KSN WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Union Rescue Mission CEO David Hodge said the…
Eviction records can follow tenants indefinitely. Sedgwick County legislators are proposing a change
By Celia Hack/ KMUW The bill proposes requiring courts to automatically seal certain eviction records…
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