There are 4 article(s) tagged The Works:

• July 2022

  • Bucking national trends, affordable housing in Memphis is a problem of quality, not quantity

    Even as housing prices are rising substantially in some parts of the area, the value of housing in other areas has been stagnant or even falling. 

    By Shera Avi-Yonah July 27, 2022

• 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