Governor’s plan follows path of a program for rural areas that waived state income taxes and reimbursed student loans. But some demographers question whether Kansas can reverse trends of people migrating out of the state.

Kansas City Housing Authority leaders are putting the finishing touches on a plan to replace the city’s most deteriorated and obsolete public housing project: Chouteau Courts, northwest of Independence Avenue and the Paseo. The plan calls for relocating about 500 residents of the apartment buildings to smaller mixed-income sites over the next five years. It also aims to improve the area’s educational, health, business development and social services.