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Kelly outlines housing push: Pathways project, asset inventory and a Sept. 1 housing feasibility analysis
Summary
Chair Mike Kelly said Johnson County has added more than 14,000 housing units in five years and announced an ad hoc board working group to inventory county‑owned land and produce a housing feasibility analysis—modeled on programs in other cities—scheduled to come to the board on Sept. 1.
Johnson County Board of County Commissioners Chair Mike Kelly said addressing the local housing shortage is a county priority and described immediate and planned actions to increase housing opportunities.
Kelly noted that Johnson County has added "more than 14,000 housing units over the past five years," and that the county accounted for a large share of new permits in Kansas during that period. He highlighted the Pathways Project in Olathe—a partnership with Habitat for Humanity in which the county invested in infrastructure to support 14 single‑family homes—as an example of local action.
To expand housing more systematically, Kelly said the board established an ad hoc working group to move from policy discussion to project selection and implementation. The first project is a land policy modeled on other cities; it will inventory Johnson County's publicly owned land and evaluate how county assets can be leveraged in the capital stack for new developments. Kelly said the housing feasibility analysis will come to the board on September 1.
What was not specified: Kelly did not provide specific financing plans for scaled housing production, a target number of additional units, or details of how the county will prioritize sites from the proposed inventory.
