Orange Mound houses inch Memphis toward more homeownership
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Memphis Mayor Paul Young and others ceremonially break ground on new affordable housing in Orange Mound. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian)
Four affordable homes planned for a vacant lot in Orange Mound are part of the drive in the city’s competition between owned and rented single-family homes.
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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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