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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "Public Housing"

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