Fixing neighborhoods: Old lending practices fueled today’s problems
The South City development (where a workman sands a column in a 2019 file photo) is part of Memphis’ effort to bring racial and economic diversity into areas that suffered due to old segregation laws. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file )
Memphis is ahead of the curve in reversing the results of old rules and regulations that encouraged segregation and created pockets of poverty. So changes in the federal fair housing policy have had little impact.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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