Opinion: ‘Community voices lead to our development decisions’
“We spent months holding community meetings, conducting door-to-door surveys, taking phone calls and opening the proposed site daily for the Memphis Urban Wood project.”
Roshun Austin
There are 4 articles by Roshun Austin :
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April 2024
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Guest Columnists
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May 2023
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Guest Columnists Opinion: The City of Memphis must get serious about affordable housing
“The City of Memphis’ funding of its Affordable Housing Trust Fund has not been near enough. And it has lagged behind the funding in other peer cities.”
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February 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: We need to share the road and slow down
While cities across the U.S. are moving toward roads for all users and equitable, place-based strategies promoting safety and access, Memphis is often stalled and focused on crime and punishment or bending to the will of the auto-centrics.
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December 2018
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Guest Columnists O.C. Pleasant Jr. was a great man, husband, father, brother, mentor, community leader and Memphian
Ocie Cleveland “O.C.” Pleasant Jr. always offered a quip and a smile upon an encounter. When expressing the standard Southern inquiry as to his well-being, he would simply reply, “I’m pleasant.”
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