Northeast Crumbles As Kansas City Help Proves Far Too Slow

This neighborhood story seems familiar as another low-income family confronts danger amid 12th & Oak disinterest . . . Check-it:

"After realizing that neither the property owner or the city’s codes inspector was in a hurry to respond to the situation, he called The Northeast News.  While it is not a situation we could respond to either, we pow wowed and suggested he contact the Kansas City Health Department and their Healthy Homes Inspection Department.

"Good answer, right? But no. Because he is not a tenant of the property at Anderson Avenue, when he called he was told that he could not request an inspection of the property in question. In turn, even though they are in danger of future additional walls collapsing, his tenant, a single mother with three children, can not request an inspection of the property falling down outside their back door."

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