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Tasha A.F. Lemley

Cambodian cuisine creates a connection to culture

By Tasha A.F. LemleyandKim Green

February 20, 2024

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Sarong Vit-Kory was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in the early 1980’s and then immigrated to the United States. In recent years, she’s begun to explore and appreciate her Cambodian heritage, in part, through learning to cook traditional cuisine

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

Chef Sterling Wright’s Radical Hospitality in Action

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

November 27, 2023

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As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.

Filed Under: Features, Metro, Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Salvation Army

Madisonians try to find home in their hometown

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

September 27, 2023

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As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.

Filed Under: Features, Metro, Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Salvation Army

A former motel in South Nashville has become essential for people leaving encampments. There’s tension over the conditions there.

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

July 7, 2023

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As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Salvation Army

Outreach workers are talking with encampment residents as Nashville prepares to offer more transitional housing

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

June 5, 2023

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In Phase 1, more than 100 people were moved — primarily into transitional housing.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Metro Homelessness Commission

A Nashville woman’s story shows the challenge of moving from homelessness to a permanent home

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

January 19, 2023

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After a year, Tammy still lives in a “transitional” motel room in South Nashville. “I’m lost,” she says, “and I don’t know where to look.”

Filed Under: Features, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Salvation Army

As Nashville closes encampment, it’s a new era for Brookmeade Park and a major adjustment for residents

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

January 4, 2023

tent camp park Nashville
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For the first time in many years, Brookmeade Park is no longer home to a tent encampment. Renovations are expected.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Metro Homelessness Commission, Metro Parks

As Nashville closes encampments, nonprofits are coordinating ‘gap’ housing options

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

December 2, 2022

Brookmeade Park encampment
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Newly posted signs at Brookmeade Park in West Nashville declare Jan. 4 is the closing date when renovations will begin. That’s the deadline for people living there to find somewhere else to go.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Brookmeade Park, homelessness, Salvation Army

Nashville’s renewed attention on encampments could bring change to Brookmeade Park

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

November 4, 2022

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For years, there’s been an encampment at Brookmeade Park. Now the unsanctioned campsite could become one of the first places targeted in a new housing initiative.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing

Early cold weather snap triggers overflow shelter — and at a higher temperature

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

October 19, 2022

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This winter, Metro will open its overflow cold weather shelter at 32 degrees instead of 28 degrees.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Metro Social Services, winter weather

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