KC's dangerous buildings list nearly tripled in 2025
Kansas City added 192 buildings to its dangerous structures list last year — more than all prior years combined — and 87% of active cases have not advanced past 'ongoing.'
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Housing
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Kansas City's land bank holds 3,580 properties — and dispositions have ground to a halt
The city acquired thousands of vacant lots after the foreclosure crisis, sold hundreds back into private hands, and then largely stopped. More than half of the properties acquired in 2013 are still city-owned 12 years later.