There are 32 article(s) tagged affordable housing:

• December 2020

  • River views beckon, when office workers return

    It’s spacious, it’s modern and everybody can take advantage of river views. But most of its newly renovated workstations and offices are empty because of COVID-19.

    By Wayne Risher December 06, 2020

• November 2020

  • Fixing neighborhoods: Old lending practices fueled today’s problems

    Memphis is ahead of the curve in reversing the results of old rules and regulations that encouraged segregation and created pockets of poverty. So changes in the federal fair housing policy have had little impact. 

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2020

• September 2020

  • City’s housing mix could take hard hit in pandemic

    The city’s mix of housing has flipped in recent years, with renters now making up the majority as investors continue to buy single-family homes.

    By Bill Dries September 28, 2020

• July 2020

  • Frayser CDC hires new executive director

    Memphis native Damon Williams, who succeeds longtime director Steve Lockwood, has worked in nonprofit housing for the past 15 years.

    By Omer Yusuf July 22, 2020

• February 2020

  • ALCO purchases 7th apartment complex in Frayser

    ALCO Management has invested more than $50 million in its Frayser properties dating back to the 1970s. 

    By Omer Yusuf February 17, 2020

• October 2019

  • Affordable housing provider retools Downtown HQ, gears up for CEO’s exit

    ALCO Management Inc., Memphis-based provider of government-subsidized rental housing in nine states, is expanding and updating Downtown offices and preparing for the July 2020 retirement of founder Frank Jemison.

    By Wayne Risher October 06, 2019

• November 2018

  • Home equity: New leader making mark on United Housing

    Amy Schaftlein was an elementary student in the Arlington area in the 1990s when her yellow school bus stopped in front of a blighted house.

    By Tom Bailey November 05, 2018