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Opinion: 'Community voices lead to our development decisions'

roshun.austin@theworkscdc.org (Roshun Austin) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:20:53 -0500

“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.”

Opinion: The City of Memphis must get serious about affordable housing

roshun.austin@theworkscdc.org (Roshun Austin) — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:31:20 -0500

“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.”

Opinion: We need to share the road and slow down

roshun.austin@theworkscdc.org (Roshun Austin) — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:00:15 -0600

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.

O.C. Pleasant Jr. was a great man, husband, father, brother, mentor, community leader and Memphian

roshun.austin@theworkscdc.org (Roshun Austin) — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:00:00 -0600

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.”