There are 3 article(s) tagged The Works:

• September 2021

  • The Works, NPI merging

    Two organizations with different track records — one for building quality, affordable housing and the other for removing blight — are merging to serve the entire core city.

    By Tom Bailey September 30, 2021

• September 2020

  • Community-development funder opens Memphis office

    Kathy Moore Cowan is executive director of the new Memphis office opened by Local Initiatives Support Corp., which has invested $22 billion to build or rehab affordable housing and develop retail, community and educational space. 

    By Tom Bailey September 29, 2020

• March 2019

  • On the Ground Podcast: Memphis’ modern-day redlining

    On S1E13 of the On the Ground Podcast, Roshun Austin of The Works, Inc. and Austin Harrison of Neighborhood Preservation Inc. examine a redlining map from the 1930s, its implications for modern-day Memphis and local strategies to breakdown housing inequality 85 years after redlining was introduced and 50 years since it was outlawed.

    By Natalie Van Gundy March 25, 2019