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Find a list of the places to contact in the Kansas City Missouri region for rent assistance. The metropolitan area spans several counties, including Platte, Jackson, Clay, and Cass County, and many of the programs will help the less fortunate in any of those counties.
The variety of rent programs that they administer is extensive. The not for profit organizations may partner with the federal government on some programs, homeless prevention and rapid rehousing assistance is administered, home repairs, eviction prevention, emergency funds for paying future rent as well as arreage, and more.
Funding is oftentimes limited and distributed in a priority fashion. Typically low income families with children, the elderly, unemployed, and disabled are the first to receive rent assistance from agencies across Kansas City. Then, and only then, if funding is still available will others be able to qualify, including more moderate income families and individuals.
Guadalupe Center Inc. of Kansas City, MO 64108, phone (816) 421-1015 focuses on the Latino communities. Counselors from the center facilitate access to social services and health services for all individuals of all ages, and can refer individuals to rent and housing counseling programs.
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Section 8 and the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program are run by the Kansas City Housing and Community Development agency. Call (816) 5132907. Both low income Kansas City Missouri housing vouchers and emergency rent assistance is provided.
Redemptorist Social Services Center Inc. can be called at (816) 931-9942. Through a variety of services including Emergency and Financial Assistance, Free Legal Assistance Programs, and Active Aging and Homebound. The number one primary goal of the Social Services Center is that counselors work to assure the immediate survival of the aging populations and low income in Kansas City; they help to minister to the housing, physical, social and economic needs of the individuals in the area served; to prevent families and individuals from becoming or staying homeless; and to help the low income seek longer term solutions.
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Agency |
City |
Program |
Phone |
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Bethlehem Christian Ministries/ J. Gordon CDC |
Kansas City |
Rent assistance and homeless prevention |
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Bishop Sullivan Center |
Kansas City |
Homeless prevention |
(816) 231-0984 |
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Community Assistance Council, Inc. |
Kansas City |
Rent help, eviction prevention, and homeless prevention |
(816) 763-3277 |
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Community LINC |
Kansas City |
Homeless prevention and eviction prevention |
(816) 531-3727 |
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Community Movement for Urban Progress (Move UP) |
Kansas City |
Government rent programs and homeless prevention |
(816) 254-4100 |
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Community Services League |
Independence |
Rent assistance and homeless prevention |
(816) 254-4100 |
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Hope Haven of Cass County |
Harrisonville |
Homeless prevention |
380-4663 |
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Metropolitan Lutheran Ministries |
Kansas City |
Homeless prevention |
(816) 931-0027 |
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Neighborhood Preservation Initiative |
Kansas City |
Home repair |
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Peculiar Senior Citizens Housing, Inc. |
Peculiar |
Continued rehab, home repairs, and housing counseling |
(816) 779-6074 |
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Platte County Senior Citizens Service Fund |
Kansas City |
Home repair |
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reStart, Inc. |
Kansas City |
Rental assistance |
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Richmond Estates, L.P. |
Richmond |
Rental assistance |
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SAVE, Inc. |
Kansas City |
Rent help, eviction prevention, and homeless prevention |
(816) 531-8340 |
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Silver Manor Senior Citizens Housing of E Lynne, MO |
East Lynne |
Rental assistance |
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The Phoenix Family Housing Corporation |
Kansas City |
Rental and housing assistance |
(816) 561-1033 |
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The Salvation Army - Crossroads Emergency Shelter |
Independence |
Rent assistance and homeless prevention |
(816) 756-1455 |
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The Salvation Army; Cass, Platte, Jackson and Ray |
Kansas City |
Rent help, eviction prevention, and homeless prevention |
(816) 756-1455 |
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