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County Commission to take final vote on affordable-housing construction

By , Daily Memphian Updated: June 01, 2025 6:35 PM CT | Published: June 01, 2025 2:34 PM CT

Shelby County commissioners won’t be taking any critical votes Monday, June 2, on a new county budget or county property tax rate.

But they have a busy agenda that includes $1.6 million in funding for county jail repairs, a call for a new county-charter amendment on a familiar issue.

There is also a final vote on a new program to activate affordable housing on land currently going into the County Land Bank and design work on a pair of new bridges in northern Shelby County.

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Bill Dries

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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