In part two of our housing series, In My Place, we continue our discussion on what cities like Nashville can do to prevent and end homelessness while caring for our neighbors who are still unhoused.
Chef Sterling Wright’s Radical Hospitality in Action
As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.
Gimme Shelter — in Madison!
When we think about our unhoused community, Nashville is no longer just Nashville.
Madisonians try to find home in their hometown
As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.
Remembering Charlie Strobel, Room In the Inn founder and homeless advocate
Few people make the kind of impact on a city that Charlie Strobel did. Today, we remember the life and legacy of the founder of the Room In the Inn.
Nashville humanitarian and founder of Room In The Inn Charles Strobel dies at 80 years old
It was a cold winter night in 1985 when Father Charles Strobel invited the unhoused people sleeping in the church parking lot inside his parish. That act was the seed that one of Nashville’s most well-known shelters — Room In The Inn — grew from.
A former motel in South Nashville has become essential for people leaving encampments. There’s tension over the conditions there.
As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.
‘It’s hard for everybody out here’: Unhoused Nashvillians are struggling to stay cool in intense summer heat
Summer has only just begun, and Nashville already experienced a dangerous heat wave that has left outreach groups concerned about how the high temperatures are impacting the city’s unhoused population.
Outreach workers are talking with encampment residents as Nashville prepares to offer more transitional housing
In Phase 1, more than 100 people were moved — primarily into transitional housing.
A Nashville woman’s story shows the challenge of moving from homelessness to a permanent home
After a year, Tammy still lives in a “transitional” motel room in South Nashville. “I’m lost,” she says, “and I don’t know where to look.”