Fighting Louisville’s affordable housing shortage is like trying to ‘eat an elephant’

Fighting Louisville’s affordable housing shortage is like trying to ‘eat an elephant’

Louisville continues to chip away at an affordable housing shortfall of more than 60,000 units, and it is a task that continues to bring new challenges.

Fighting the Blight with Affordable Housing

One Community Update June 17, 2025 Source: www.wapt.com Debora Tarvin of Jackson has to look at a blighted property across the street from her home every day, and it bothers her. “I just wish they do something about this house across the street because I’m tired of looking at it. That yellow house has caused us more problems than anything,” said Tarvin. She is not the only person who deals with this. According to the Mississippi Center for Justi…