The sprawling Greenbrook at Shelby Farms apartment complex is home to over 1,000 rental units housed in gray buildings beneath tall, spindly trees. Its website boasts a “resort-style ambience” complete with walking trails, fishing ponds and three swimming pools across 105 acres.
But this complex has a secret: It filed for eviction against 420 tenant households in 2025. That’s the highest number of any rental property in Shelby County — an average of eight eviction filings every week, all year.
According to data compiled by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, Greenbrook at Shelby Farms is just one of the 100 Memphis-area apartment complexes that filed the most evictions against their tenants last year. Combined, these properties were responsible for nearly 10,000 eviction filings — or around a third of the 27,658 evictions filed in Shelby County in 2025…