A safe, affordable home is one of the basic requisites of life—a key to individual and family health, family wealth, economic stability, and wellbeing, and is the foundation for sustainable, economically vibrant and diverse neighborhoods.

LISC was founded with the mission to help organizations become strong and stable neighborhood institutions characterized by effective and responsible fiscal management and capable of carrying out a range of community revitalization activities. 

LISC’s financial stability programs connect individuals and families earning low to moderate wages with the financial and labor market mainstream. We offer employment and career services, financial coaching and education, and low-cost financial products that build credit, savings, and assets.

About 80 percent of what determines a person’s length and quality of life happens outside of a doctor’s office, clinic or hospital. Educational opportunity, economic stability, neighborhood safety, availability of recreational facilities and access to fresh, healthy food overwhelmingly shape a person’s well-being and health.

Greater Kansas City LISC’s focus on safety and justice helps to establish problem-solving partnerships among law enforcement, community developers, neighborhood leaders, residents, business owners and members of other neighborhood institutions. 

The goal of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is to use the transformation of public housing stock—in this case, the Chouteau Courts public housing complex—as a catalyst for improving the quality of life for public housing residents as well as residents of four surrounding neighborhoods.

Greater Kansas City LISC is working in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, Urban Neighborhood Initiative, Mid-America Regional Council, and the Kansas City District Council of the Urban Land Institute to redevelop Kansas City’s urban core east of Troost Avenue.