‘Build up, not out': City leaders wrestle with affordable-housing puzzle
Members of the Memphis City Council gather to have their formal group picture taken on Feb. 24 in the Hall of Mayors at City Hall. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian file)
Pieces of the puzzle include a delayed grocery store in Hyde Park, a Land Expo, emerging developers, questions about putting the cart before the horse and a community garden in Binghampton.
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Klondike Community Land Trust United Housing Inc. Northside Square Jimmie Tucker Amy Schaftlein Kelbert Fagan Convergence Memphis Paul Young Yolanda Cooper Sutton Michalyn Easter-Thomas Corey Davis Subscriber OnlyThank you for being a subscriber to The Daily Memphian. Your support is critical.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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