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The project leaders of the redevelopment of the former Northside High School in Memphis’ oldest Black community announced on Thursday, Oct. 17, that the residential financials have closed.
“If we adopted a new approach to vacant land, we could actually reduce the amount of work that is required — and money that is spent — by our city as it intervenes and attempts to maintain health and safety at abandoned land.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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