Eight agencies are first to benefit from city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Mayor Jim Strickland awards Paul Walkley of Service Over Self a grant for $60,000 from the first City Housing Trust at City Hall on Mon., Dec. 23, 2019. (Ziggy Tucker/Special to the Daily Memphian)
The grants to eight nonprofits announced at City Hall Monday cover areas outside Downtown and Midtown where the housing stock is old and could use some help to encourage private development. The fund works with the city's recently approved Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines.
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