Displaced
WPLN News investigates the deterioration of an affordable apartment complex in a prime location
Each day, thousands drive past the brightly painted Riverchase Apartments just across from downtown Nashville, which have a rare combination of affordable housing and skyline views. But one by one, they’ve been getting boarded up, and major changes are coming.
WPLN’s Ambriehl Crutchfield reviewed more than 1,600 inspections to understand how the apartments continued to decline despite government inspections, what low-wage residents are doing to find new homes in the city’s hot housing market, and why organizers are at odds about the way forward.
Series by WPLN’s Ambriehl Crutchfield. Edited by Chas Sisk.
How we reported this story
In the summer of 2021, WPLN’s Metro Reporter Ambriehl Crutchfield had a source meeting with P.A.T.H.E. She had previously reported on the group’s demands on city officials to help tenants after eviction moratoriums ended, and on the issues renters faced while accessing federal COVID-19 rental assistance money. The organizers now told Crutchfield that all 212 units of the Riverchase Apartments would need to be vacated by May of 2022.
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