Housing

Editor's note: This story is the second of a four-part series about housing challenges in Johnson County. Read our first part introducing the county's housing shortage here. Later this week, we’ll explore other factors that contribute to high housing costs and...

Editor's note: It's no secret: housing is one of Johnson County's hottest topics. The Post hears frequently from readers who voice concerns about why it seems so hard to find an affordable place to live in this place we all call...

Johnson County — like many parts of the United States — has experienced a housing shortage for years now, and a 2021 housing study released by United Community Services of Johnson County quantified the problem. The study had a detailed...

Construction is underway for the first build-to-rent community in Kansas at aimed people looking to live in a house without buying it. Earlier this month, Material Capital Partners broke ground on Harmony at Clear Creek in Shawnee, a new community...

The Lenexa Planning Commission has approved plans for a building that, if given the final OK, will be the tallest development by far at Lenexa City Center. On Oct. 6, the city's planning commission unanimously recommended approval of preliminary plans...

Gardner has given the final stamp of approval for a nearly 250-home subdivision coming to the far west end of the city. The Gardner Planning Commission on Aug. 25 approved the final development agreement for the first phase of a...

Neighbors worry that a plan to build a handful of homes near the border between Overland Park and Leawood will exacerbate flooding problems they say are already serious. The rezoning request — dubbed Riva Ridge — would bring seven single-family...

Updated at 10:57 a.m. Aug. 25. Olathe Salvation Army officials hope to open four additional housing units by the end of spring, after receiving final approval from the city council. The city council voted 7-0 to approve the expansion at its...

An undeveloped lot at 127th Street and Nall Avenue in Overland Park, surrounded by single-family homes and other residential uses, could become a small group of homes through an infill development project. An infill development occurs when a developer embarks...

A proposal by Kansas City-based nonprofit Metro Lutheran Ministry to rehab 16 low-income housing units at yet-to-be-determined locations in Johnson County got a green light Thursday from county commissioners, who praised it as an important step toward helping an...

A developer is moving forward with plans for a large senior housing project just south of downtown Gardner, but without dozens of assisted living units that some officials say the city lacks. Gardner established the Grand Street Reinvestment Housing Incentive...

Volunteers worked Tuesday in the 90 degree heat, under the sun — placing windows, nailing in beams and doing what they could to help build one of 14 single-family homes as part of Habitat for Humanity and Pathway Community...