Nashville’s public housing agency broke ground Thursday on the latest stage of the Cayce Transformation plan.
Nashville police adds violent crime unit, in latest embrace of a new strategy
The latest effort in MNPD Chief John Drake’s “precision policing” philosophy is a new Violent Crime Division to investigate carjackings, armed robberies and other serial violent crimes.
A Program Looking To ‘Cure’ Gun Violence Comes To Nashville
Listen An organized group of Nashville activists is looking to bring an anti-violence effort to the city that treats gun violence as a public health epidemic — like an infectious disease that can spread within a community.
New Federal Program Clears Way For Nashville’s Housing Agency To Partner With Private Investors
Listen Nashville has taken a big step forward in its plans to overhaul the city’s aging public housing. It involves transferring federal property over to the housing authority itself, which means the city’s housing agency now owns the James A. Cayce public housing projects outright — for the first time ever since it was built […]
Nashville’s Housing Agency Gets Into A Catfight Over … Cats
Listen It all began with an email. The subject: Dead Bird at the Legal Department Steps. The culprit was unknown, but it was likely Lizzie, Darcy or Tux, three cats who hang around the Metropolitan Development Housing Agency’s administration buildings in the James Cayce homes. They’re fed by staff. They’ve even been fixed and vaccinated.
A Nashville Neighborhood’s Spike In Violence Proves Hard To Calm
Listen Nashville saw a rise in homicides across the city this year — but some neighborhoods were worse than others. In and around the James Cayce Homes in East Nashville, there were seven murders, the most in 26 years.
Shadow Snakes, A Mysterious And Delightful Eclipse Sighting In East Nashville
Listen In East Nashville’s James Cayce Homes, resident Tori Winston, 28, adjusted the eclipse glasses on her young nephew. “Look straight at the sun,” she said. “You see that little bitty spot on the sun? That’s the eclipse.” The impromptu viewing party had just begun and every step of the way, kids were slack-jawed at […]
Overhauling Public Housing Is Expensive — Here’s How Nashville’s Paying For It
Listen Nashville has big plans to overhaul its aging public housing. And it won’t be cheap — likely to cost billions of dollars and take decades to complete. It’s made possible with a newer federal policy that puts public housing back into the hands of local agencies, allowing them to take out loans on the […]
Nashville’s Night Out Against Crime Comes Amid Spike In Violence
Listen Nashville’s annual Night Out Against Crime came in the midst of a summer that’s seen a dramatic rise in violence. At a park in East Nashville, a neighborhood where shootings are the highest in decades, parents and police gathered for a night of peace.
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