By Dane Forlines If your spell checker is like mine, “walkability” will usually be underscored with a squiggly red line. You won’t find it in…
Read More What do we mean when we talk about “Walkability?”Category: Opinion
Featuring local opinions and editorials from all over Memphis
Title Insurance and Neighborhood Revitalization
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAW CORNER By Danny Schaffzin & Steve Barlow Very often after a foreclosure auction, a property is so delinquent on taxes that it…
Read More Title Insurance and Neighborhood RevitalizationWhy you should care about the demolition of 3375 Summer Avenue
I heard someone say that nearly everyone in the neighborhood had, at one time or another, some dream for that building. On March 13, 2019,…
Read More Why you should care about the demolition of 3375 Summer AvenueHow the Water Flows: Flint, Michigan vs. Memphis, Tennessee
You are halfway there. The race is almost done. You have been training for this all year and have been giving your all for thirteen…
Read More How the Water Flows: Flint, Michigan vs. Memphis, TennesseeCombating Predatory Investors
More Regulation & Advocacy For Low-Income Home Renters May Help in the Battle Against Out-of-Town Investors Like Cerberus On Christmas Day 2018, Washington Post reporters Todd…
Read More Combating Predatory InvestorsChildhood Impressions Cut Deep
One Halloween when I was five or six, a rumor went around, shared by a couple of neighborhood kids, that some house was passing out…
Read More Childhood Impressions Cut DeepThe Concept of Shared Prosperity
By Leslie Smith, BLDG Memphis In April 2019, the publication The Atlantic and the collaboration The Shared Prosperity Partnership gathered local policymakers and community leaders…
Read More The Concept of Shared ProsperityWelcome to The Equitable Issue
“You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in…
Read More Welcome to The Equitable IssueLegal Tools for Assuring the Quality of Residential Rental Properties
Affordable, quality housing is a basic human need. But access to such housing eludes many families in Memphis and other American communities. Even where affordable housing…
Read More Legal Tools for Assuring the Quality of Residential Rental PropertiesNonprofit Land Banks: A Powerful Tool for Strengthening Neighborhoods
It’s obvious to anyone driving through dozens of Memphis’s neighborhoods — Memphis has too many abandoned and vacant properties. More than 13,000 structures and vacant…
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