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After building homeless shelter in North Memphis, nonprofit looks south

By , Daily Memphian Published: June 07, 2025 4:00 AM CT

After breaking ground at the end of May on a Hospitality Hub campus in North Memphis, the executive director of the nonprofit program says Southeast Memphis needs a hub to help homeless people living in that part of the city.

“I think it’s necessary for other communities. I think that one of the communities that could really, really use this is Hickory Hill and Southeast Memphis,” Kelcey Johnson said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.”

“There are a lot of homeless (people) in Southeast Memphis. There’s a lot of homeless children in Southeast Memphis,” he said. “Southeast Memphis leads the county in evictions, almost three times as many as the rest of the city combined.”

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Bill Dries

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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