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Dickerson Pike

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

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

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

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

Dickerson Pike Mobile Home Residents, Facing Displacement, Try To Negotiate Compensation From The Landowner

Ambriehl Crutchfield

October 8, 2021

Leslie Matute
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Nashville’s city council is buying more time for mobile home owners on Dickerson Pike.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Dickerson Pike, sean parker, workers' dignity

Nashville Mobile Home Owners Want Extension Before Land Is Sold

Ambriehl Crutchfield

July 14, 2021

Residents of a Dickerson Pike mobile home community are asking for more time to find a place to move after around 50 families received notice that they needed to be out by the end of August, as the owner of the property is trying to sell the land under their homes.

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

Nashville’s Downtrodden Dickerson Pike Angles For A Turnaround

Tony Gonzalez

January 31, 2019

Elwyn Gonzalez and a planning map

Listen Nashville’s Dickerson Pike has been known for vacant and dilapidated buildings, and once had the reputation as the city’s red-light district. But that’s been changing.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: city planning, Dickerson Pike

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