At SENT, we don’t believe food security is the finish line. We believe it is the front door. For many neighbors, the Southside Filling Station is the first place they […]
At the beginning of 2025, I sat down with the newly released America’s Health Rankings and felt a genuine sense of encouragement. Kansas had moved from #29 to #28 in
Modeling Our Way Toward Health Read More »
Recently, the work of SENT in the Hi-Crest neighborhood was recognized by the Kansas Department of Commerce through the Community Empowerment Program with its highest designation, Community of Excellence. We
Why Hi-Crest Is Not the Exception Read More »
A Thoughtful Look at Research and Our Practice This is a question we hear often, and it is a fair one. When people have seen neighborhoods change without protections, it
Does Mixed-Income Housing Displace Residents? Read More »
(Using Shawnee County – Central / Topeka City data as the closest ZIP-level proxy) Source: Urban Institute, Financial Health & Wealth Dashboard (2025). Daily Finances 27% of residents have delinquent
Financial Health of Topeka with additional data on Blacks in Topeka – December 2025 Read More »
I struggle with the tension. In Topeka and in communities like ours across the country, we are caught between two competing realities. The first is the one splashed across headlines:
The Crisis We Don’t Want to See, and the Hope We Cannot Ignore Read More »
In almost every community conversation about housing, someone eventually says some version of: “We need affordable housing, but we don’t want those kinds of homes.” I understand where that fear
More Homes, More Stability: Why SENT Is Using Manufactured and Panelized Housing in 2026 Read More »
At SENT, we often say that housing is not just shelter. It is health infrastructure. It is education infrastructure. It is economic infrastructure. Johnson-Betts Meadows was designed with this belief
A Stable Home Is One of the Strongest Investments a Community Can Make Read More »
This is a question we hear often, and it is a fair one. When people have seen neighborhoods change without protections, it makes sense to ask whether new housing, even
We are again mourning the loss of life in our city. Once more, we are confronted with the reality that violence in Topeka is not an isolated event. It is