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affordable housing

What’s lost when a mobile home community is displaced? One Dickerson Pike family finds it’s more than just affordable housing.

By Alexis Marshall

January 7, 2022

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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.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Dickerson Pike, workers' dignity

To tackle Nashville’s affordable housing problem, city names its first director and earmarks more federal funds

By Blake Farmer

December 20, 2021

construction growth housing Nashville

Nashville is funneling more money into affordable housing and hiring someone to direct affordable housing across city government.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, Tanaka Vercher

Displaced East Nashville mobile home tenants win compensation after a monthslong fight

By Juliana Kim

December 7, 2021

Leslie Matute

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.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Dickerson Pike, Housing

What a proposed complex in North Nashville illuminates about affordable housing and systemic racism

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 2, 2021

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Claudia Wright moved to the Clay Mill Station subdivision eight years ago.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Housing, North Nashville

Nashville mobile home owners went weeks without stable housing after accepting their landlord’s relocation offer

By Juliana Kim

November 3, 2021

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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.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Housing

Faith-led coalition requests that federal money be spent on affordable housing

By Blaise GaineyandRachel Iacovone

October 18, 2021

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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.

Filed Under: Education, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, evictions, John Cooper, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Metro Schools, MNPS, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope, NOAH, Sandra Sepulveda

Nashville Housing Advocates Urge City To Speed Up The Pace Of Rent Relief

By Juliana Kim

September 8, 2021

The city has received millions of federal dollars for housing assistance, but organizers say the issue is only growing worse.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, evictions, Metro Human Resources Commission, PATHE, People's Alliance For Transit Housing And Employment, Red Door Collective, rent relief

Nashville Developer Commits To Supporting Low-Income Tenants In Relocation To Madison

By Blake Farmer

July 25, 2021

Birchstone village meeting

Residents of an East Nashville apartment complex will be moved to Madison as the owner prepares to tear it down and rebuild.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, East Nashville

Mayor’s Office Sets 2024 Deadline To Address Stagnant Affordable Housing Stock

By Samantha Max

June 8, 2021

Mayor John Cooper’s office has released a new report outlining nine recommendations to increase affordable housing in Nashville that sets a deadline of 2024 to increase the city’s stock significantly.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, John Cooper, Kyonzte Toombs, Metro budget

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