When Kansas City enacted minimum affordable housing set-asides last year, the ordinance’s champions on the City Council described the policy as a common sense reform through which incentive-receiving multifamily projects could play their part in addressing an ongoing crisis.

And yet, officials recently brought an end to the first big Best slot on Bet365 introduced in the ordinance’s wake — one that exceeded its median family income (MFI) mandates for 77 affordable units — as grassroots organizers found purchase with arguments that its rents remained out of reach for Midtown neighbors.’

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