Some people will be edged out of the housing market, especially since home prices are still high. The median for a single family home in Middle Tennessee is nearly half a million dollars.
Displaced: For some at Riverchase, the search for housing remains a major challenge despite offers of help
The last residents of the Riverchase apartment complex in East Nashville have two weeks to move out.
Nashville’s new Randee Rogers Apartments pair affordability with a ‘prime location’
Nashville’s newest subsidized apartment building is drawing praise for offering affordable rents in a coveted location.
Displaced: Riverchase residents feel tension as community groups split on their demands of developer
On a sweaty Friday morning in April, three P.A.T.H.E. workers and a volunteer are coordinating moves for Riverchase families. One family needs a huge bean bag brought to them in the motel or their storage unit — depending on logistics.
Displaced: An affordable housing complex in East Nashville deteriorated in plain sight. Here’s how it happened.
One by one, the Riverchase Apartments are getting boarded up, forcing residents to move out of the East Nashville affordable housing complex.
Home prices could fall in some U.S. cities. Here’s where and why
During the past two years, home prices nationally have soared more than 30%. Rising mortgage rates make affording a home even harder. That has many people wondering if we’re in another housing bubble.
Latest snapshot finds fewer unhoused and unsheltered Nashvillians
Nashville’s latest count of people experiencing homelessness found 1,916 individuals staying in shelters, encampments and on the streets. That figure is lower than recent years and continues a downward trend since at least 2016.
Climbing mortgage rates are pushing home ownership out of reach for some Nashville buyers
Mortgage rates are climbing due to recent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. That means it costs more to borrow money, which drives down people’s buying power — a dilemma that Brentwood resident Sean Hamlet knows all too well.
How rising housing costs are pushing Nashville’s immigrant communities further away
In this episode, we examine how the red-hot Nashville market specifically impacts working class and recently-arrived immigrants and their families. We’re joined by community members, outreach worker, and educators to learn about how development and rising rents are making cultural communities and vital services harder to access for many immigrants and recently-arrived refugees.
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