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We spend nearly 90 percent of our time indoors. However, many of our homes, workplaces, and community spaces need improvements to eliminate indoor air pollutants, shield us from extreme weather, and save us money on our utility bills. Additionally, the rising cost of housing is displacing lower-income residents and pushing people farther out from transit, jobs, and amenities. This Climate Action Section focuses on retrofitting existing buildings and constructing new buildings that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve our community resilience, support our health and wellbeing, and support efforts to address the housing affordability crisis.

Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan

Strategies to Improve Homes & Buildings

B-1: Increase building efficiency and health for commercial and public buildings

B-2: Improve the efficiency, affordability, and durability of homes

B-3: Ensure climate-ready, efficient construction

B-4: Promote equitable building decarbonization

To ask specific questions about the Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan, please contact the Office of Environmental Quality by phone at (816) 513-3452 or by Email to OEQ.

Phases

Phases overview

Phase 1: Collecting your comments about improving HOMES & BUILDINGS

Collecting your comments about improving HOMES & BUILDINGS

Phase 2: Summarize the Feedback Received

Summarize the Feedback Received

Collecting your comments about improving HOMES & BUILDINGS

August 2, 2024 5:00 AM - February 22, 2025 6:00 AM

Our homes and buildings will promote climate justice by reducing the housing burden (the percentage of household annual income spent on rent or mortgage), addressing the housing crisis, and enabling people to have more agency over where they live and the conditions in which they live. This includes prioritizing the safety and stability of people facing homelessness, restoring older and abandoned homes, improving indoor air quality and other unsafe indoor health and living conditions, and investing in the infrastructure needed to advance energy efficiency and building decarbonization in affordable and multifamily housing for renters and low-income homeowners.

5 issues

Patricia Carter1 year ago Require that new build homes, apartments, townhomes etc meet minimum energy efficiency requirements. Windows, doors, insulation etc. The biggest factor here is that Americans are still building wood framed houses. They are not energy efficient and they easily burn down, which has been especially a problem in some of the poorer neighborhoods in Kansas City. Building with concrete - either blocks or solid pieces is astronomically more efficient. Also, encourage appliance installation that is safer and more efficient such as induction stoves and biofuel heaters.I recently spoke to a neighbor who wanted to build a passive home, they had to import windows from Poland because nothing in the USA is even close to efficient or long lasting enough. How can our city foster change in this area? I know earth bricks are also being explored. Lets encourage this research and support innovations!

Brandon Jackson 1 year ago There are so many empty lots with potential for housing, yet, they sit with years with nothing in the works. We also have a lot of houses and buildings that are empty, and yet, we keep complaining about homelessness and a shortage housing. These kinds of properties contribute greatly to the problem of homelessness, as the owners refuse to use them to relieve society of this problem.Empty properties should always be subjected to taxation due to a lack of occupancy, until it can prove that it is exempt from such taxation. While an empty house or building is still able to generate property taxes, its occupants will also help to generate a variety of income and sale taxes. An empty lot generates no kind of taxable revenue for the city, or any other governments like the county or the state, due to it not having anything on it to tax. No one likes taxes, but sometimes, that fear should be used to encourage the property owner to do a lot more for society in many ways than just sit on it.

Patricia Carter1 year ago

Sarah Fitzpatrick-Heinz2 years ago By THOSE i mean the ones that me and my friends and most people I talk too have shot up like weeds. They are everywhere including the suburbs. They have commercial space on the bottom and apts above-39th and Stateline, 51st and Main, 51st and Oak, Over by At Luke’s, over in Waldo. They are hideous. I might hate them less if they weren’t being built where an old lovely building was torn down. Sometimes a building in good condition. Sometimes not, tho certainly find it suspect that the areas where the buildings were so poorly maintained are places on or right off the plaza. Couldn’t keep up the buildings even though landlords could charge ridiculous rent?!? It would be nice if the city would look into that bc we have lost gorgeous buildings where the landlord is just refusing upkeep. Not to mention the old school buildings like Bryant we have just rotting away all over town. It was a lovely school .And it’s not okay in any neighborhood. It’s a shame whether it’s the plaza or not. We are ripping our history down. They finally tore down that old church on the Plaza. I love it when the star writes an article which they did about the old Paseo high school a while back. I’d forgotten how angry people were about that and the article talked about regret.Of course they tore it down and then like twenty years later we lament it in the paper. They may as well do it for that old church on the plaza. Just write it now and publish it in 25 years when we wish we hadn’t done it. They are also gutting house all over the city. House flippers leave an old exterior outside and a JOCO hell on the inside. They rip all our old houses down to the studs and these aren’t people who are wanting to live there and raise a family. I may hate it but it’s your house and there is a difference.It’s companies coming in and kind pretending they are going to live there, they ruin it and leave. It’s just a shell. And of course it’s companies bc no one can afford a damn house or rent for that matter. I voted years ago to revamp the downtown. Didn’t realize at the time my tax money would go to fixing up an area I will never be able to afford. I worry about the fixing up they are doing off Paseo bc it’s is near downtown and I believe it deserved to be fixed up (I want all the neighborhoods in tiptop shape) but I’m very distrustful that they will price everyone out. It’s not okay. It needs to be addressed as does some kind of rent control. We have empty buildings people can’t afford and empty pretty old rotting buildings just rotting away and homeless people living in parks,on benches, under bridges and under passes. That is for another comment thread. what i will say is could they not at least use nicer brick for these hideous weed apartments. The brick part is even ugly!! How do you mess up bricks? and maybe paint them some thing other than beige. . They are are just god awful to look at but make them fun vibrant different colors ( and mean actual colors blues and reds and something vibrant and fun. Maybe paint designs around the windows, some accents something but I think the city and neighborhood associations need to put there foot down. That they need to make them some how somewhat pleasing to the eye and unique as you can with a cheap building that’s built to last only thirty years or they can’t build them. Honestly we need to be thinking long term. We can’t keep building trash that rots has to be torn down. All we do is talk in the country and this world. We could be a city that actually tries to build quality things. repair old things and work on a sustainable city. Wouldn’t that be something different for a change. All of the things we know need to be done and changes we have to make as a species on a massive scale, what if we as a city actually came together and we did it here. Actually became a community again and said we are gonna try. and not just with this stuff but to actually take care of each other, the “least”among us and have pride in the stuff we have built and be that change. That i think would be cool. hard work but we could be a proud American city

Becca Craig1 year ago

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