Iola may get new housing next year through the efforts of inmates at the Kansas Department of Corrections facility in Hutchinson.
City Administrator Judy Brigham told Commissioner Bill Shirley and Mayor Bill Maness — Commissioner Craig Abbott was absent — Tuesday evening that an affordable housing program proposed at a meeting in Humboldt also might work well in Iola.
The Kansas Housing Resource Corporation has teamed with the DOC to offer cities affordable housing opportunities through the use of inmate labor. The modular-style homes could be built for a little…
City eyes housing program
