The apartments were falling apart. The residents were fighting to stay.
That’s what Mayor Paul Young remembers most about Tillman Cove, a 97-unit Memphis apartment complex where residents faced eviction shortly after he became the city’s housing director in 2016.
“They were in terrible shape. Terrible shape,” Young recalled Thursday, Oct. 15,, at the Memphis Housing Summit, held at the Memphis Botanic Garden. “But they were crying to be there, because they had nowhere else to go.”…