Kansas City Shoal Creek Public Housing Project Coming Soon!!!

Get ready to hear our Northland neighbors cry bloody murder as radical housing changes at the federal level hope to alleviate an upcoming eviction crisis.

Even better, we want to give a shout out to a BRILLIANT COMMENT FROM A KICK-ASS TKC READER.

A mostly worthless newspaper article syndicated across a string of partisan-hack-blogs alleged a sketchy connection betwixt the Kansas City murder rate and the end of the CDC eviction moratorium . . . However, a bit of common sense gave us a moment of pause.

Here's the word . . .

"Just so I understand, eviction moratorium last year and record breaking number of homicides. And the claim is evictions lead to increase in homicides? Ok. Got it."

Brilliant.

Think about that for a second . . . Half-a-dozen journalists and dozens of support staff worked to publish that Sunday newspaper front page report but a comment that completely debunked the screed was probably written before/after/during a toilet break.

Accordingly . . .

The Shoal Creek housing project in the form of emergency vouchers currently under consideration is just one outcome in the works as the Biden White House advances a rapid-fire series of initiatives to completely transform American housing before midterm elections . . . Checkit . . .

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Developing . . .