PLAN 5993: Affordable Housing Study for Memphis, Tennessee
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The Memphis Bridge - downtown Memphis
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South Memphis housing in need of rehabilitation
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South Memphis housing in need of rehabilitation
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Potential site for housing rehabilitation at the terminus of the new rail-to-trail Memphis Greenline
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Memphis Housing Authority’s Foote Homes, which is slated for HOPE VI redevelopment in 2012
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University Place mixed-income HOPE VI development
Project Details
Velocity - Affordable Housing Research & Feasibility Plan for Memphis, Tennessee
12 weeks
The 2010 Census identified Memphis as the most impoverished of all U.S. metropolitan areas with populations greater than 1 million. This research project identifies several causes of economic disparity throughout Memphis, how this problem affects the local affordable housing landscape, and how an agency might intervene using affordable housing development as an avenue for community and city-wide change.
Specifically focusing on the rental population, the research delves into what is currently going on in the public, private, and non-profit housing development sectors in Memphis and identifies where gaps in supply and demand exist both spatially and by economic threshold. The investigation of several organizations as case studies for best practice in housing implementation throughout Memphis and Nashville then introduces a feasibility and business plan for a similar organization to emerge in Memphis with a solid foundation for understanding both the local demographics and hte subsequent design needs.
