https://www.thepitchkc.com/what-happens ... vanishing/
articles like this seem to pop up all the time, and in KC it has become somewhat routine to hear folks complain along these lines--not just for artists but everyone. KC is not experiencing anywhere near the population influx (and attendant strains on infrastructure and real estate) as nashville, let alone longtime boomtowns like denver, austin, portland, etc., but there are a lot of concerns regardless. honestly, i think people in KC got so used to KC being completely under-the-radar for so long that it is startling to experience this kind of momentum. if i were to compare KC to any city, it would probably be Mpls, which i feel like is our larger sibling and has grown a lot in stature but has managed to absorb it and wear it well without overheated prices or people freaking out.
there are isolated pockets of the city that have definitely seen a sharp increase in home values. when we moved to south hyde park in 2008, for years it was almost unheard-of for a house to sell for more than $199K, except maybe one of the few truly enormous houses that are sprinkled in the area. (for that matter, it wasn't long before 2008 that houses in SHP were probably across the board less than $100K, so we were kind of midstream gentrifiers in that regard, maybe?) it
is a little shocking now to see pretty normal shirtwaists in South Hyde Park selling for $250-300K. it's maybe even more shocking to see $30K houses east of troost in midtown being flipped and sold for $180K-250K. but even with these trends, it's still quite possible to live inexpensively in KC, just not as easy to do so in the central corridor.
