In the midst of Garden City’s ongoing housing shortage, a new regional nonprofit hopes to use new or underutilized tactics, including rehabilitating abandoned properties and accessing federal programs, to build more units in town to meet local demand.
The High Plains Housing Development Corp. formed last fall, earned its 501(c)3 status last January and is currently moving through preliminary steps to be an asset to Garden City and, ultimately, southwest Kansas, said executive director Michael Snodgrass.
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