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East Bank

What housing is ‘affordable’ for you?

Rose Gilbert

September 27, 2022

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Housing is affordable — meaning you are not cost burdened — if it takes up 30% or less of your gross income, according to national housing guidelines. But we want to know what YOU would consider affordable in Nashville.

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, Programs Tagged With: affordable housing, East Bank, Housing

Nashville’s East Bank redevelopment plan looks ambitious, but do its transportation ideas aim high enough?

Laura Dean

September 26, 2022

East Bank rendering

Transit advocates hope Metro makes the most of the East Bank redevelopment — but they also worry that the current plan doesn’t go far enough on transportation options.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bus service, East Bank, Jackie Sims, Jessica Dauphin, transportation, Walk Bike Nashville

Nashville’s housing task force fills in more details of the ‘Imagine East Bank’ plan

Ambriehl Crutchfield

September 21, 2022

Nashville officials are pitching the idea of building close to 3,600 affordable housing units on the city’s land for the future East Bank development.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, area median income, Brett Withers, East Bank, Mayor's affordable housing task force, Paulette Coleman

Nashville’s mayor tries to clarify how the East Bank redevelopment plan could benefit other neighborhoods

Paige Pfleger

September 8, 2022

Mayor John Cooper and other transportation officials are trying to clarify how their ambitious Imagine East Bank plan could benefit more than just the east side of the city.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, John Cooper, North Nashville, transit, WeGo

The Cumberland River is degraded. Can Nashville’s 300-acre redevelopment plan help restore it?

Caroline Eggers

August 26, 2022

Across from downtown Nashville, an industrial area houses asphalt, the Titans stadium and unused space for potentially billions of dollars worth of developments. That area is the “East Bank,” and city officials announced plans this week to redevelop it with special attention to the Cumberland River.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, Cumberland River, development, East Bank

The mayor who ran on improving neighborhoods now wants to build a new one downtown

Ambriehl Crutchfield

August 22, 2022

After resident frustration of downtown Nashville getting the most money from elected officials, Mayor John Cooper ran on improving neighborhoods.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, downtown Nashville, East Bank, John Cooper, Oracle, River North, Titans stadium

Displaced: An affordable housing complex in East Nashville deteriorated in plain sight. Here’s how it happened.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

May 25, 2022

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One by one, the Riverchase Apartments are getting boarded up, forcing residents to move out of the East Nashville affordable housing complex.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, Housing, Mayor John Cooper, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Titans stadium

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