Organizations Filed Purposes:
NLS performs legal work to allow blighted and abandoned urban core properties to be turned into good quality housing for low income families. We also assist and support the efforts of neighborhood organizations in the urban core area to address abandoned housing issues.
The Neighborhood Legal Support (NLS) mission is to provide legal assistance and other support to empower urban core neighborhoods to grow stronger.
We have created and oversee a focused community development project, which takes blighted properties in a twenty-block area in urban Kansas City, and turns them into high quality housing. We have over 30 partners for the project, including 14 participating rehabbers and builders and a host of City Departments and non-profit stakeholders who collaborate on the project. The project reduces crime, increases available affordable and mixed income housing, reduces blight, supports small, urban businesses, increases tax revenues and greatly improves the quality of life in urban Kansas City. The project is also designed to be replicable in other neighborhoods.
We do innovative legal work to support the acquisition and development of blighted urban properties, so that they can be converted into good quality housing. There are thousands of vacant and blighted properties in the urban core of Kansas City; for many of these, it is unclear who actually owns the property. Without clear title, banks will not make loans for redevelopment and the properties cannot be sold to traditional buyers. These title defects effectively prohibit the rehabber from obtaining loans on the property to improve it. Worse, if a rehabber invests his or her own funds in improvement, the property may face foreclosure or collection actions from the lenders, organizations or individuals who continue to have legal claims to the property. The result is that many hundreds of urban core properties that could be developed languish for years. NLS's primary work is to clear title on urban core properties in Kansas City, so that they can be rehabbed and made into quality housing for low-income families. Our priority is to clear title on properties that will be rehabbed, by a not-for-profit or community-supported private developer immediately upon the clearing of title. Our goal is that, within one year of completion of the Quiet Title work, the property will be occupied, tax paying property and, if it is residential property, it will be the home for an urban core family.
In 2019, NLS entered into an agreement with Lykins Neighborhood Association (LNA) to formalize their collaborative relationship with NLS providing services in regard to the Abandoned Housing Act, Civil Nuisance, and Quiet Title litigation on behalf of the neighborhood association, property owners within the neighborhood, and participating rehabbers and builders concerning properties in the Lykins Neighborhood. NLS has a number of open cases they are working on for the LNA.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Gregg Lombardi | Executive Director | 40 | $77,096 |
| Gail Lozoff | Board Member and Deputy Executive Director | 21 | $38,548 |
| Kurt Williams | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Saundra Hayes | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| David Schulte | Board Secretary | 1.5 | $0 |
| Dr Bridget Mccandless | Board Treasurer | 1.5 | $0 |
| Todd Lieberman | Board President | 1.5 | $0 |
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