A bill passed by the 2021 Kansas Legislature to create Rural Housing Incentive Districts or R H I D, may provide options for Garnett and other Anderson County Towns wanting to develop housing locally and contains special provisions to reimburse costs to renovate upper floor areas of vintage downtown buildings into apartments or condos. RHID is a program designed to aid developers in building housing within rural communities by directing the incremental gain in property taxes from developed properties into either public bond payments or reimbursement of developer costs.
Garnett City Commissioners have recently committed new energy toward development of local housing, and the Anderson County Development Agency was awarded a $10,000 Grant from the Throckmorton-Riser Foundation to pay for a local housing study.
