Kansas
City
Charity Services
Kansas
City
Charity Services
OUR MISSION
Kansas City Charity Services
is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the revitalization of the urban core community through strategic planning with various neighborhood community groups. Our programs are designed to provide home ownership within 10 years with affordable monthly payments.
Community Development
With Unity Thru Community
We are focused on revitalizing the undeserved neighborhoods, typically low-income, that have experienced significant disinvestment.
Providing Affordable Housing
With Unity Thru Community
We invest in and advocate for the preservation and production of quality homes that people can afford.
Community Workforce Project
With Unity Thru Community
Utilize urban core youth and unemployed adults, displaced workers, veterans, to transform dilapidated, abandoned and neglected property int he urban core into viable low-income/no income housing.
1.3 Million American children live in unstable housing
Federal Rental Assistance Hasn’t Kept Pace
United States Federal Rental Assistance Fact Sheet
Download a PDF of this fact sheet here.
On a single night in 2018, half a million people experienced homelessness in the United States. An estimated 1.3 million American school children lived in shelters, on the street, doubled up with other families, or in hotels or motels during the 2016-2017 school year.
- 10.4 million people in 5.2 million American households use federal rental assistance to afford modest housing.
- 68% are seniors, children, or people with disabilities.
- The median rent (including utilities) for an apartment in the United States was $1,060/month in 2018 , an 13 percent increase since 2001.
- 4 in 10 low-income* people in the United States are homeless or pay over half their income for rent.
23 million people in 10.7 million low-income American households pay more than half their income for rent, often forgoing necessities, like food or medicine, to keep a roof over their heads. Most don’t receive rental assistance due to funding limitations.
Sponsor a Project
Bring a new low income home to an entire community
or school with a gift of $10,000 or more.
Give the Gift of Affordable Housing
People of color face disproportionately high housing problems when compared to non-Hispanic whites and the population as a whole.
Disproportionate housing problems are even greater when looking at severe housing problems. While Kansas City, Missouri, residents tend to have a higher probability of having housing problems, these percentages are almost equal for non- Hispanic blacks and Hispanics whether they live in the city or the region as a whole.
You can make a difference.
Our Impact
See the results of your support and our efforts combined.
27,894
Volunteer service hours
contributed by students and staff.
95%
Of families placed in our housing programs
secure long-term employment.
76
Home renovated and rehabbed through our urban core redevelopment program.
