Reporter’s Notebook: 100 years of feuding neighbors on Armour
The struggle in Hyde Park among Section 8 landlords, renters and homeowners is the subject of this week’s feature story (“Battle on Armour“). One complaint is that some neighborhood residents believe out-of-town landlords are filling buildings with only low-income tenants and creating the perfect conditions to attract crime. Arguing over who’s the best tenant for the boulevard is nothing new.
Reading newspaper stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, it was clear that Kansas City’s middle class was bemoaning the riffraff on the boulevard decades ago.
One sad story laments the death of social graces and the new neighbors who would never deign to mix with the former great homeowners:
