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Housing

What we’re doing: WPLN News has reported on the rising cost of housing for many years, but we’re committing to increasing our coverage throughout 2022, as single family home prices have gone up by 25% over the past year and rents have gone up by 20% over the past two years. These stories are informed by conversations with the community and rich in data and resources. Our goal: to create a visceral snapshot of the housing crisis in 2022, spur leaders into action, and empower residents to make smart decisions.


Join the conversation! We’ve dedicated several episodes of This Is Nashville to the rising cost of housing. Listen on any podcasting app, or on our website:

  • Adventures in Nashville home shopping with first-time buyers (Aug. 4)
  • Nashville’s growing need for affordable housing (July 14)
  • How mediation solves disputes, including between landlords and renters (June 29)
  • How rising housing costs are pushing Nashville’s immigrant communities further away (May 3)

WPLN News Investigates: How did an affordable apartment complex in a prime location deteriorate in plain sight? WPLN’s Ambriehl Crutchfield reviewed more than 1,600 inspections to understand how the apartments continued to decline despite government inspections, what low-wage residents are doing to find new homes in the city’s hot housing market, and why organizers are at odds about the way forward.

Read our special series Displaced.


Living in a home after being unhoused can be daunting. A Nashville developer is trying to help.

By Katherine Ruppelt

September 14, 2024

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The Wallace Street apartments are designed to help make the transition into housing for previously unhoused tenants easier.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Housing

Metro opens first permanent housing option, with on-site addiction treatment and mental health services

By Cynthia Abrams

July 19, 2024

Until now, much of the city’s approach to homelessness has been about short-term support, like emergency weather shelters or temporary transitional housing.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Charlie Strobel, homelessness, Homelessness Planning Council, Housing, Metro Government, Nashville housing

Struggling to find housing? Personal experiences will inform Metro’s newest affordability strategy

By Cynthia Abrams

July 9, 2024

construction growth housing Nashville

Right now, Nashville does not have a “unified housing strategy.” While there are a number of existing reports and plans, there’s not a singular roadmap for Nashville’s affordable housing goals. But, with a new effort underway from Metro’s Housing Division, that’s about to change.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Housing

Report: Tennessee housing market a ‘mixed landscape’

By Tony Gonzalez

July 8, 2024

Nashville new construction duplex

It’s a mixed scorecard for Tennessee’s housing market in the latest quarterly analysis from MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Housing, MTSU

Nashville wins $5M for affordable housing through competitive federal program

By Cynthia Abrams

June 27, 2024

housing construction Nashville

Nashville has been awarded $5 million in funding from the federal government to help remove barriers to building affordable housing.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Barnes Housing Trust Fund, federal funding, Housing, low-income housing, Nashville housing

Nashville homelessness down slightly in latest annual count

By Tony Gonzalez

May 18, 2024

Brookmeade Park camp

Slightly fewer Nashvillians were found living without permanent housing this year during an annual volunteer-led counting effort.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: April Calvin, homelessness, Housing, Office of Homeless Services, unhoused

More than 10,000 Nashvillians told community leaders what they wanted to see for the city. Here’s what they said.

By Cynthia Abrams

February 28, 2024

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Imagine Nashville, the citywide initiative asking residents to envision their dream city, has released results from more than 10,000 respondents. The data show that while a majority of participants say that “things are positive” in Nashville, frustrations remain with the current state of the city.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, economic and community development, Growth, growth and development, Housing, Imagine Nashville, Nashville neighborhoods, public transit

In My Place: Housing

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

January 29, 2024

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Thanks in part to support from Pinnacle Financial Partners, This Is Nashville is launching a 9-part housing series.

Filed Under: In My Place, Programs Tagged With: Housing

Chef Sterling Wright’s Radical Hospitality in Action

By Tasha A.F. Lemley

November 27, 2023

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As Nashville closes encampments, residents are finding themselves in temporary transitional housing for far longer than expected.

Filed Under: Features, Metro, Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Salvation Army

Nashville preservationists worry developers will tear down homes tied to Civil Rights movement

By Tony Gonzalez

November 21, 2023

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The endangered sites appear on this year’s “Nashville Nine,” the annual listing by the nonprofit Historic Nashville Inc. The group has adopted a thematic focus this time in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Black history, history, Housing, Nashville Nine, preservation

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