Some people will be edged out of the housing market, especially since home prices are still high. The median for a single family home in Middle Tennessee is nearly half a million dollars.
How rising housing costs are pushing Nashville’s immigrant communities further away
In this episode, we examine how the red-hot Nashville market specifically impacts working class and recently-arrived immigrants and their families. We’re joined by community members, outreach worker, and educators to learn about how development and rising rents are making cultural communities and vital services harder to access for many immigrants and recently-arrived refugees.
For unhoused Nashvillians, the price of getting help is a ‘time tax on the poor’
This story first aired on our daily show, This Is Nashville. Listen to the entire episode on housing for the unhoused, here. It’s an early morning in December. Over a breakfast of tater tots and soda, Tammy and her adult son Ray – whose last names we’re withholding for safety concerns – are shuffling through […]
How Nashville’s community land trust aims to preserve housing affordability and build generational wealth
An affordable housing initiative launched a little over four years ago has recently finished its first property built for low- and moderate-income buyers. Nashville’s fledgling community land trust is aiming to create permanent affordable housing and help families build equity.
What’s lost when a mobile home community is displaced? One Dickerson Pike family finds it’s more than just affordable housing.
The deadline has passed for the remaining families at a mobile home community on Dickerson Pike to move out. And displaced residents are facing more than just financial hardships as their community is split up.
To tackle Nashville’s affordable housing problem, city names its first director and earmarks more federal funds
Nashville is funneling more money into affordable housing and hiring someone to direct affordable housing across city government.
Displaced East Nashville mobile home tenants win compensation after a monthslong fight
More than 20 Dickerson Pike mobile home park tenants have tentatively won compensation from W.C. Mobile Homes’ developer, but will still move out of the East Nashville park by year’s end.
What a proposed complex in North Nashville illuminates about affordable housing and systemic racism
Claudia Wright moved to the Clay Mill Station subdivision eight years ago.
Nashville mobile home owners went weeks without stable housing after accepting their landlord’s relocation offer
Several residents moved out early on the condition that their landlord would provide a new place to park and live. But some say they’ve ended up in a worse situation.
Faith-led coalition requests that federal money be spent on affordable housing
Nashville Organized for Action and Hope held its annual meeting to list its requests to officials. Much of it focused on helping fund programs like affordable housing, better pay for school support staff and faster help for those facing eviction.
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