Housing: In the Bluff, Memphis Flyer

Blight Fall

Mary Cashiola — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:30:00 -0500

In this week's print edition, out this morning (hint, hint), Bianca Phillips, Hannah Sayle, and I take on the collateral damage of the foreclosure crisis — Memphis neighborhoods — and what's being done to combat blight and deterioration.

Of course, not all of Memphis' blighted properties are foreclosures.…

The Big Short

Mary Cashiola — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:51:24 -0500

I'm one of those people fascinated by the mortgage/foreclosure crisis: how it happened, how it was allowed to happen, the resulting effect on Americans and their communities ...

So I've recommended Michael Lewis' The Big Short to a lot of people.…

From Home to School

Mary Cashiola — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:54:26 -0500

By the time December rolls around, all the residents currently living at Cleaborn Homes will have moved out to prepare for demolition of the public housing development. But that leaves a number of students enrolled at Georgia Avenue Elementary, Vance Middle, and Booker T. Washington High schools most likely changing schools.…

Marketplace Takes On Memphis

Mary Cashiola — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:40:33 -0500

Memphis — and its lawsuit against Wells Fargo — were featured on American Public Media's Marketplace last night.

Jeremy Hobson and local attorney Steve Barlow drove through Orange Mound, and they estimated that a third of the neighborhood's homes have gone into foreclosure.…

Peace & Justice's Take on Foreclosures

Mary Cashiola — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:46:00 -0500

If you couldn't make the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center's forum on foreclosures and blight several weeks ago, they've been gracious enough to post a five-minute presentation on the subject to YouTube.

You can also read some of my more recent pieces on foreclosures and its effect on the local community here and here.…

Neighborhood Canvas

Mary Cashiola — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:45:00 -0500

[Part of this week's focus on foreclosures ... ]

A few years ago, as part of an annual clean up in Orange Mound, MIFA's Handyman volunteers noticed a vacant shotgun house.…