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None of the more than 8,000 residents of Napier Sudekum Housing, Nashville's largest public housing development, receive TANF benefits, according to the Tennessee Justice Center. (MDHA photo).

None of the more than 8,000 residents of Napier Sudekum Housing, Nashville's largest public housing development, receive TANF benefits, according to the Tennessee Justice Center. (MDHA photo).

Government Spending

How Tennessee, other states, keep welfare payments from the poor

State, federal officials agree TANF isn't working, pursue major reforms

David WatersSeptember 24, 2024

Government Spending

Coalition aims to break cycle of poverty with sweeping $1.4 billion ‘More for Memphis’ initiative

What would it take to break the multi-generational cycle of poverty in Memphis? To reverse decades of race- and class-based discrimination and exploitation, disinvestment...

David WatersFebruary 21, 2024

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed with her belongings on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing residents to move out of subsidized housing for months so it can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed with her belongings on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing residents to move out of subsidized housing for months so it can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Public Housing

Uptown developer irked by public housing rehabs and relocations

Tameka Moss moved out of her government-assisted Uptown home last month and went to an Airbnb in Whitehaven. Her neighbor, Terry Jackson, moved out...

David WatersFebruary 21, 2022

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed of her belongs on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing hundreds of people to move out of subsidized housing for months so housing can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed of her belongs on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing hundreds of people to move out of subsidized housing for months so housing can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Neighborhoods

The end of public housing in Memphis, but not resident “relocations”

For the second time in a generation, government-subsidized housing in Memphis is undergoing a massive and expensive transformation — and public housing residents are...

David WatersFebruary 10, 2022

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