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Housing department seeks flat FY26 operating budget while warning staffing limits could curb down-payment and home-repair aid
Summary
The Division of Housing and Community Development presented a largely flat fiscal 2026 operating budget and described program activity—down-payment assistance, home repair, affordable housing and homelessness support—while stressing staffing shortages and federal grant timing as constraints.
Ashley Cash, director of the Division of Housing and Community Development, told the Memphis City Council Budget Committee on May 13 that the department’s FY26 operating request is essentially flat compared with FY25 and that personnel costs remain the largest share of the budget.
Cash said department priorities include down‑payment assistance, community development grants, home‑repair assistance, construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing and homelessness initiatives. “Personnel and having adequate staffing or adequate funding for our personnel staff is just key to our whole operation,” Cash said.
The department’s authorized complement is 70 positions, Cash said, with a hiring freeze covering some administrative slots and several vacancies across program areas. Cash told council members there are roughly eight positions ready to post when the…
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