The clearest loser in Metro’s emergency budget plan is the Barnes Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Some nonprofit developers were surprised to learn this month that they would not be receiving anticipated grants worth up to $2 million this year.
Arts-Focused Development In North Nashville Opens More Units
An affordable housing development in North Nashville opened more units, with a focus on the arts. The development at 26th Avenue North and Clarksville Highway includes 43 apartments set aside for working artists. They’re among 168 apartments that are eventually planned for what’s envisioned as a multi-generational, arts-inspired community.
Nashville Mayor Announces Plans To Build Two New Affordable Housing Developments
The mayor’s office announced plans to build two new affordable housing developments in North and East Nashville. It’s the first step in Mayor David Briley’s Under One Roof plan—to spend $500 million building affordable housing over the next decade.
Could Curbs On Regulation Wind Up Hurting Nashville’s Growth? Experts Say Yes
Listen Tennessee has some of the most far-reaching state laws overwriting local policies on things like minimum wage, paid sick time and affordable housing, according to a new study from the Partnership for Working Families. And some experts say Tennessee’s effort to put the interests of business first on such issues could actually slow Nashville’s growth. Especially […]
Nashville’s Public Housing Authority Is Recruiting A New Kind Of Tenant
Listen For the first time, the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency is running local radio and TV ads, hoping to attract a different kind of tenant than it typically serves.
Following Nashville’s Lead, Murfreesboro Plans To Overhaul Public Housing
Listen Oakland Court in Murfreesboro is a small, sleepy complex. Driving through the 20-acre neighborhood filled with tidy lawns and compact brick homes, you may not even realize it’s public housing. But the city has plans to tear down and rebuild this development.
Nashville Gives Away Vacant Lots To Advance New Affordable Housing Idea
Listen A new approach on affordable housing advanced this week in Nashville. The Metro government gave 15 vacant properties to a nonprofit that will help create low-cost, single-family homes.
Nashville Soccer Stadium Approved For Fairgrounds
Listen One of Nashville’s most intense debates ended Tuesday night with a series of votes that approved the construction of a Major League Soccer stadium at the city fairgrounds.
The Promise: A Tale Of Two Neighbors Pt. 1
Listen This is a story about the assumptions we all make. And the secrets we all keep. Big Man, a public housing resident from the Cayce Homes, has a nagging feeling about a fancy new modern-looking home one block over from him. To Big Man, this house signifies everything threatening him and his family: gentrification, […]
Nashville Dinner Series Aims To Curb Gentrification, One $100 Hot Chicken Sale At A Time
Listen A series of dinners starting Thursday in North Nashville and running through Saturday is taking aim at gentrification. On the menu — hot chicken — and it won’t come cheap: Diners are being asked to pledge $100 a piece.
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