PlanKCK Innovation Lab: Housing

On behalf of the Unified Government, FUSE Corps Innovations Lab will be convening an innovation lab on housing in Kansas City, KS. This interactive experience will explore both the complex web young families and the unhoused navigate to find stable housing in Kansas City, KS. Utilizing Human Centered Design and a Racial Equity & Inclusion lens we will discuss the community’s response to protecting the most vulnerable among us.

Facilitated by Medici Road, this event will:

• Build empathy for the most vulnerable residents of Kansas City, KS who face housing insecurity;
• Generate at least one viable community development model that can be implemented to improve both the process and outcomes for very low-income people's ability to access housing;
• Motivate the support for implementation of a new community development model.

This is just one of many engagement opportunities around PlanKCK, our comprehensive plan and has limited seats. Lunch will be included and RSVP is required.

About Medici Road

Medici Road's mission is to reduce poverty by creating education, housing, and public health solutions that uproot systemic racial inequities

About FUSE Corps

FUSE is a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone. We believe, as communities adapt to constantly evolving challenges, that economic advancement and narrowing racial disparities is not only possible, but achievable.

When

Location

First Baptist Church of Kansas City, KS, 500 Nebraska Avenue, Kansas City, 66101, View Map