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Kansas City opens financial empowerment survey; staff ask residents to respond by August

City of Kansas City, Missouri — Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department (CREO) webinar · July 24, 2026
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Summary

City staff and partners launched a community financial empowerment survey to gather resident experiences; staff said the survey will remain open through August and may extend into September depending on response rates. The survey link and outreach materials are available at kcmo.org/creo.

Christopher Smith, founder of Unearthing Your Roots and a study lead on the project, described the community financial empowerment survey and invited residents to participate. He said the online assessment "only takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete" and that responses will be combined with historical research, policy review and administrative data.

Cohen Byers said the survey is intended to recruit a broad, diverse sample and will be open through August and likely into the first week of September if the city needs more responses to achieve statistical significance. Rio Cervantes Reed (CREO) directed residents to kcmo.org/creo for the survey and outreach materials.