Be Part of The Jewish Community Providing an Affordable Home for a Deserving Low-Income Family

The Jewish community is invited to join with Tikkun-KC to help turn this abandoned house in Kansas City's Ivanhoe neighborhood into affordable housing. Following in the tradition of a Mitzvah House funded by the Jewish community a few years back, the first Tikkun House is a large 3- story 3,584 square foot house at 3629 Park. It's ready for the Jewish community to join together to fund its renovation into affordable housing for a carefully vetted family receiving financial management counseling and a special low-interest mortgage.

Recently acquired for $800 in court costs with the assistance of Legal Aid of Western Missouri and encouragement of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council, the house will be renovated for approximately $50,000 on a block where homes are selling for $80,000. The Jewish community is invited to support the renovation by providing funding for the renovation and, at a later date, by providing volunteers to help with the renovation.

Renovation will take place under the aegis of Tikkun-KC, a 501-c3 nonprofit which is transforming blighted neighborhoods by cost-effectively renovating decrepit houses on the city's dangerous building list that were slated for demolition, providing deserving low income individuals with an opportunity to become homeowners, and providing employment and job training. Home ownership is critical to bringing back blighted neighborhoods because homeowners take pride in their property and are invested in their neighborhoods being safe and well-maintained.

Tikkun-KC was inspired by the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson quote: “If you see what needs to be repaired and know how to repair it, then you have found a piece of the world that G-d has left for you to complete. But if you only see what is wrong and what is ugly in the world, then it is you that needs repair.”