First city grant under new fund goes to summer housing for homeless families

By , Daily Memphian Published: July 07, 2026 6:39 PM CT

The Memphis City Council renewed its community grant program and immediately used some of the funding for the Hospitality Hub, which is providing temporary housing for more women and children this summer due to federal funding cuts.

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Memphis City Council County community grants city council grants Lashanta Rudd Edmund Ford Jr. Memphis Art Museum Allan Wade Art Davis city tax collections Ford Canale Hospitality Hub Kelcey Johnson

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Bill Dries

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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