Housing

A more than seven-hour Lenexa City Council meeting ended early Wednesday morning with the governing body approving a plan to build 50 affordable single-family homes near the site of a planned future city park in the western part of...

Developers struggling to launch a new Mission apartment complex want to raze an office tower off Metcalf with the hopes that an expanded footprint will make the project more viable. Block Real Estate Services wants to expand its $114 million...

The condemnation of the Aspen Place apartments, which abruptly forced hundreds of tenants out of their homes in Gardner, shocked Johnson County when it happened nine months ago. That shock continued to ripple on Wednesday in a Kansas Senate hearing...

A plan to build 50 affordable single-family homes in western Lenexa cleared a key hurdle on Monday. Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City wants to use a 17-acre property currently owned by the city near the southwest corner of 86th...

Updated Wednesday, Feb. 18 The Chadwick Place housing development proposed for the area south of 135th Street and east of Chadwick Street will move forward, now that the Leawood City Council has approved its rezoning, preliminary plan and plat. Councilmembers on...

A 2021 housing study said Overland Park needed to build around 4,500 more homes valued at roughly $321,000 (in 2025 dollars) or less. Since then, just one home has been built in the city at that price point. That’s according...

Seven lots planned as twin villas in Leawood’s Regents Park development will become detached single-family homes instead. The Leawood City Council unanimously approved that change Tuesday after being told that the developer was responding to market conditions. But some councilmembers...

This week, Maura Heft is doing something no one else in her family has ever done: move into a home she owns. Heft said she’s excited to “build a foundation” for her 6-year-old daughter, Rory. “ something I didn't have growing...

Although Lenexa officials last year approved an over 66% increase in the number of places available at Project 1020, the county's only cold-weather homeless shelter, the facility at the Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church has been full to overflowing...

Habitat for Humanity wants to buy land from the city of Lenexa to create a neighborhood of affordable houses. In December 2025, Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City announced it had submitted a proposal to the city to purchase a...

A plan for townhomes at 119th and Lone Elm is in limbo after developers and nearby residents butted heads at the Olathe City Council meeting last week. Developers want to rezone the 7.7-acre lot to allow for low-density multifamily residential...

Plans to turn the old Wonderscope building in downtown Shawnee into apartments now include building several new townhomes on site. On Monday, the Shawnee Planning Commission voted 9-0 to approve a revised site plan that includes building 14 two-story attached...