There are 4 articles by Roshun Austin :

• April 2024

  • Guest Columnists

    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.”

    By Roshun Austin April 17, 2024

• May 2023

  • 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.”

    By Roshun Austin May 12, 2023

• February 2021

  • 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.

    By Roshun Austin February 14, 2021

• December 2018

  • 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.”

    By Roshun Austin December 13, 2018