Northeast Kansas City Neighborhood Trust
With Lykins Neighborhood Association & Jerusalem Farm
We met the amazing team at the Lykins Neighborhood Association in 2020. Building on the 2018 Lykins Neighborhood Strategic Development Plan, we worked together through 2021 to create the Northeast Neighborhood Trust, NENT which launched in 2021. Originally named the Lykins Neighborhood Trust, NENT is one of the first two MINTs, launched alongside the Kendall-Whittier Neighborhood Trust (KWNT) in Tulsa, OK.
NENT focuses its work on the six historic Northeast neighborhoods of Kansas City, MO: Lykins, Independence Plaza, Scarritt-Renaissance, Indian Mound, Sheffield, and Pendleton Heights. Alongside being some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city and home to institutions like the Museum of Kansas City and Kansas City University, these neighborhoods have significant immigrant and refugee communities, are multilingual, are adjacent to downtown, and have historic urban fabric with a mix of small apartments and single family homes. Portions of the historic Northeast have already seen some of the fastest home growth and rent increases in the city as residents have secured public and private investment, improved school quality, and created safer, healthier neighborhoods. Alongside a related mandate to preserve affordability in light of this rent growth, replacing negligent ownership, renovating long vacant properties, and improving quality, accountable housing ownership are also major priorities for residents.
KEY PRIORITIES
Serving the full Northeast, including refugee and immigrant communities
Renovating vacant properties
Restoring historic properties
Pushing out negligent or predatory landlords
