‘Dramatic’ changes in local rental market meet old challenges in affordable housing

By , Daily Memphian Updated: August 20, 2021 6:32 AM CT | Published: August 20, 2021 4:00 AM CT

Three leaders of the federally-funded effort to help pay overdue rent and utility bills talked on “Behind The Headlines” about what the new market reality means for the city’s growth with a shortage of quality affordable housing.

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affordable housing Behind The Headlines eviction assistance Welcome Home Memphis Steve Barlow Dorcas Young Griffin Cindy Ettingoff

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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