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Deadline to apply for Kansas City’s $1 house program is Friday

By Lynn Horsley

lhorsley@kcstar.com
At a Feb. 11 news conference in the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue, City Manager Troy Schulte joined Mayor Sly James and other Kansas City officials to announce that houses scheduled for demolition can be sold for $1 to people who will rehabilitate the property. The deadline to apply to the program is April 1.
At a Feb. 11 news conference in the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue, City Manager Troy Schulte joined Mayor Sly James and other Kansas City officials to announce that houses scheduled for demolition can be sold for $1 to people who will rehabilitate the property. The deadline to apply to the program is April 1. Susan Pfannmuller Special to the Star

If you’re interested in applying for the Kansas City Land Bank’s $1 house program, the deadline is Friday.

The sale is part of an initiative to eliminate blight by fixing or demolishing hundreds of dangerous vacant homes in the city. But people should be aware that these are seriously deteriorated properties that will require tens of thousands of dollars to be inhabitable.

There are about 135 dangerous houses in the Land Bank’s inventory, and the agency so far has received 34 completed applications from interested buyers.

The list of available homes, as well as other information, is at www.kcmolandbank.org.

More information is at kcmo.gov/neighborhoods/dollar-home-sale.

Lynn Horsley: 816-226-2058, @LynnHorsley

This story was originally published March 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM with the headline "Deadline to apply for Kansas City’s $1 house program is Friday."

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