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Seg. 1: Fund Aims To Restore Blighted Homes In Kansas City. Seg. 2: A Spotlight On Mark Edelman.

The Kansas City Social Investment Pool looks to help contractors willing to rehabilitate abandoned houses with financing.
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The Kansas City Social Investment Pool looks to help contractors willing to rehabilitate abandoned houses with financing.

Segment 1: Legal organization teams with community development financial institution to transform abandoned residences into affordable housing.

Kansas City, Missouri, residents have long complained about derelict houses especially in the urban core.  Today, we learned about a new plan underway that has Legal Aid of Western Missouri teaming up with AltCap to form the Kansas City Social Investment Pool. This funding will enable contractors to obtain short-term financing at reasonable interest rates and allow builders to rehabilitate deserted structures into homes for low-income residents.


Segment 2, beginning at 18:57: President of Theater League Kansas City retires after 40 years.

In 1976, a vision of bringing Broadway-level theater productions to communities around the country became reality. The man behind it all, Mark Edelman, retired in May. Today, he regaled Steve Kraske with his memories of the top performers and productions he brought from The Great White Way to the Heartland. 

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Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.
Danette (Danie) Alexander first came to KCUR in 2007 as an intern for Up to Date after completing her B.A. in Communications at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After her KCUR internship was completed, Danie continued to spend her mornings assisting senior producer Stephen Steigman as a volunteer with the show. Her radio experience also includes stints with public radio's New Letters on the Air as a broadcast engineer and on local public radio as host of a weekly overnight call-in show.