“Hyde Park” and “middle-class renaissance” are terms denoting positive changes along Kansas City’s Armour Boulevard, the address of once majestic apartments where urban professionals lived. But “Bainbridge Apartments” conjures up another image, one of low-income residents whose Section 8 housing is threatened with destruction.
Jacob Wagner and Michael Frisch, professors in UMKC’s Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, spoke recently with KCUR’s “Central Standard” host Gina Kaufmann about the ethical and societal costs of affordable housing. Listen here.