TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- After two years of discussion, the Topeka Affordable Housing Task Force will give their recommendations to the city Tuesday night.
The Task Force is calling for a housing survey, expanding education on affordable housing options, and new housing opportunities.
“At, present we do not have a consistent or comprehensive understanding of housing stock in Topeka,” the Task Force wrote in documents submitted to the council. “A housing study would provide a reliable resource to find out what we really need and where we need it.”
They're also asking the council to create a housing trust fund, a land bank program, and passing a neglected building registration ordinance, sooner, rather than later.
Also at Tuesday's meeting, Topeka Police Chief Bill Cochran will present results from the Topeka Police Department Citizens Advisory Council.
Cochran disbanded the Chief's advisory committee and formed a new citizen’s advisory council In May.
"It'd be much more inclusive,” Cochran explained. “People and representatives of people in the city of Topeka, and would be a more direct access to the police department for the citizens. Also a way to give the public a say in possibly the day to day operations of the Topeka Police Department just to make the community more involved.”
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