Apartment complex renovation could be catalyst for more affordable housing
Larchena Jordan looks out the window of her apartment at the newly renovated Renaissance at Steele complex in Frayser on Thursday, March 18. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Larchena Jordan weeps in her apartment at the Renaissance at Steele complex in Frayser on Thursday, March 18. “I ain’t never been scared ever,” said Jordan, a diabetic, double amputee. “... God gave me this body. He gave it to me, and he said, ‘Fear not, we not supposed to fear, we supposed to keep on.’ I’m not going to stop living because I lost a limb. ...” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Larchena Jordan talks about how she ended up in her apartment at the Renaissance at Steele complex in Frayser on Thursday, March 18. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Frayser Community Schools executive director Bobby White points out the apartment where his aunt lived in when he was a teen. “I didn’t know exactly where we were going to be, and I said maybe it was meant for me to be here then and it’s meant for me to be here now,” White said Thursday, March 18. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Roshun Austin, executive director of The Works Inc., speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Renaissance at Steele complex in Frayser on Thursday, March 18. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian
On a cloudy Thursday afternoon, the organizations behind the Renaissance at Steele renovations in Frayser celebrated the $17 million project’s completion.
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Frayser Roshun Austin Archie Willis The Works Inc. affordable housingOmer Yusuf
Omer Yusuf covers Bartlett and North Memphis neighborhoods for The Daily Memphian. He also analyzes COVID-19 data each week. Omer is a former Jackson Sun reporter and University of Memphis graduate.