Subject: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Letters

  February 1, 2001

• Bidness as Usual

  June 20, 2002

• Bus Crash

  January 22, 2004

• Trading Holy Spaces

  January 13, 2005

• Oh snap! HUD gives City a thumbs down on its housing plan

  We have a housing department again, which is nice. And the city seemed well on its way to getting its assets back. Remember how a federal judge ordered that a receiver control all of the city's properties and its loan portfolio until the city's housing program gets its shit together? And how the city paid $350,000 to hire Chicago-based experts at Applied Real Estate Analysis to tell the staff what to do? Well, wouldn't it suck if you paid someone to do your homework for you, only to have it hand

  March 25, 2009

• Here’s why Kansas City’s broke all the time

  April 2, 2009

• Six ways the city has wrecked a vital agency. Two projects that work anyway.

  January 8, 2009

• Your Tax Dollars Not at Work

  January 3, 2008

• If It Ain't Broke

  Is there a city housing scandal? Two City Council members aren't so sure.

  January 29, 2004

• Meet the Landlord

  Notorious landlord Bobby Veal was fined more than $1 million for sexually assaulting his tenants. But getting him to pay is another matter.

  December 2, 2004

• Empty Nests

  How Kansas City companies helped kill the American Dream.

  July 12, 2007

• The Housing Authority

  Kansas City’s public housing officials want you to think everything’s great. Miss Lizzie Brown knows otherwise.

  June 28, 2007

• Low-Quality Hill

  August 17, 2006

• West Side Sorry

  The new Tony Aguirre Community Center gets its neighbors worked up, not worked out.

  August 10, 2000

• Milk and Money

  The east side's only grocery store is the site of a political skirmish.

  January 13, 2005

• Home Alone

  Waiting for City Hall, Cedric Workcuff feels as abandoned as his house looks.

  November 11, 2004

• Climate Shift

  A taxpayer-funded lender seeks credibility — by suing KMBC weatherman Bryan Busby.

  August 12, 2004

• Dude Where's the Party

  Local Democrats cross political lines to support their favorite pork producer — Senator Kit Bond.

  January 8, 2004

• A Grand Design

  A congregation of homeless people wants to help save downtown.

  February 6, 2003

• Home Groan

  Angry neighborhood residents are tired of living with Kansas City's Housing Department director.

  December 5, 2002

• All Wet

  Toiling together on a slippery slope, a minority contractor, the city and a neighborhood have built something terrible.

  August 8, 2002

• Oh, Rats

  The Housing Authority pays the rent for rodents.

  June 6, 2002

• High and Writhing

  Police, neighbors and residents say Central Park Towers is creepy.

  January 31, 2002

• Walls Talk

  Homebuyers spell out their displeasure.

  January 17, 2002

• Built to Sue

  Jeff Miller built flawed homes -- and his financing was a little too creative.

  May 24, 2001

• Home Is Where the Card Is

  David W. Zabawa went to prison for credit card scams. Now he has a whole new idea.

  April 26, 2001

• The Redevelopment Blues

  Kansas City has made an investment in the 18th and Vine Historic District. Isn't it about time it starts paying off?

  June 1, 2000

• 63rd Street is ready for its close-up

  October 15, 2009