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Topeka staff summarize three years of housing investment, highlight rehab and infill gains
Summary
City housing staff presented a district-by-district summary of roughly three years of housing activity in Topeka, reporting about 400 impacted properties, nearly 700 housing units permitted, and program work emphasizing rehabilitation, emergency repairs and a mix of incentive-driven developments.
City housing staff summarized the past three years of housing activity in Topeka on May 14, 2025, telling the Topeka City Committee the work encompassed income-based and location-based programs, private infill and economic-development incentives.
"We were asked to provide a summary overview of the past 3 years of housing investment in Topeka," said Carrie Higgins, housing services division director, who presented the report alongside Quinn Cole, senior management analyst. "We thought, well, hey, there's so many different angles of this. Let's talk about affordable housing as far as reinvestment that carries rehab and rehabilitation programs do. And then let's also talk about affordable through the economic development incentive side, and let's just talk about market rate while we're at it."
The nut graf: The presentation aimed to give committee members a…
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