Frayser affordable housing gets foothold despite economic challenges
Contractor Ronnie Crawford hangs a sign outside a newly built home at 1991 Whitney in Frayser, Wednesday, July 17. The construction is part of an effort to overcome the lasting effects of the Great Recession. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
As many as 30 more new homes could follow two new homes completed recently on Whitney Avenue in Frayser. The effort comes with some city investments and some remaining challenges from the Great Recession.
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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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