Memphis After a 30-year HUD led program to obliterate public housing in the USA, there probably isn’t any more quixotic campaign than to try and save the “last public housing project in Memphis,” as Robert Lipscomb, head of the Memphis Public Housing Authority calls the 497 unit Foote Homes, but there I was huddled in …
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Fighting for the Last Housing Project, Marshall Islands Arkansas, Chinese Enviros
New Orleans I went to sleep with firecrackers booming over the Mississippi River and woke up to chickens crowing in the yard next door, but it helps get me out of bed and on the road to Memphis and to working with citizens’ groups and others in the Bluff City, trying to make the redevelopment …
Visiting Highlander and Thinking about Power and the Powerless in Memphis
New Market I couldn’t remember my last visit to the Highlander Center, but it had to have been in the last century. Little had really changed. The same bunk beds, rocking chairs, and great views of the Cumberland Mountains were still there. Finally thanks to towers popping up like weeds on the hillsides …