{"id":187550,"date":"2026-05-08T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:44:09","slug":"fort-scott-faces-housing-shortage-developers-address-city-needs-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187550\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Scott faces housing shortage, developers address city needs | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2025 BY KOAM NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>FORT SCOTT, Kan. (KOAM) &#8212; Fort Scott Area Home Developers met on Thursday to discuss the city&#8217;s needs and plans.<\/p>\n<p>The city says a 2025 study proved Fort Scott faces a housing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>The city expects several hundred more jobs to come to Fort Scott over the next year, making the need for housing even more acute.<\/p>\n<p>Find the full story in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2025 BY KOAM NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; COPYRIGHT 2025 BY KOAM NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,182],"class_list":["post-187550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}