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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.


Gimme Shelter — in Madison!

Tasha A.F. Lemley

September 27, 2023

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When we think about our unhoused community, Nashville is no longer just Nashville.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: addiction, homeless, homelessness, Housing, Madison, Metro Homelessness Commission, nashville churches, Office of Homeless Services

Madisonians try to find home in their hometown

Tasha A.F. Lemley

September 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

Confused about Metro zoning laws? Here’s WPLN’s concise guide to get you started.

Elizabeth Burton

July 21, 2023

construction tractor Germantown

You and your neighbors might be wondering what’s even allowed to be built on your corner. The answer lies within Nashville’s zoning policies.

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: city planning, Housing, neighbor 2 neighbor, zoning

Nashville affordable housing — mayoral candidates respond to a WPLN listener’s question

Cynthia Abrams

July 7, 2023

WPLN asked Nashville’s mayoral candidates questions from listeners. Here’s what they had to say on affordable housing.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 2023 election, affordable housing, city, city-state relations, climate change, Early voting, election, environment, General Assembly, gun violence, Housing, Mayor's race 2023, mayoral candidates, Mayoral election, Mayoral Race 2023, Nashville mayor, Nashville mayoral race, public transit, school safety, transit

A former motel in South Nashville has become essential for people leaving encampments. There’s tension over the conditions there.

Tasha A.F. Lemley

July 7, 2023

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

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

Local housing nonprofits join forces to set policy priorities ahead of Nashville’s mayoral election

Rose Gilbert

June 5, 2023

Ten local housing nonprofits have announced that they are joining forces to form the Alliance for an Affordable Nashville ahead of the upcoming mayoral election.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Alliance for an Affordable Nashville, East Bank, Housing, Mayoral Race 2023, Project Return, Urban Housing Solutions

Outreach workers are talking with encampment residents as Nashville prepares to offer more transitional housing

Tasha A.F. Lemley

June 5, 2023

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In Phase 1, more than 100 people were moved — primarily into transitional housing.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, Metro Homelessness Commission

Should algorithms set rent prices? An antitrust trial with national implications is underway in Nashville.

Rose Gilbert

June 1, 2023

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A national antitrust case happening in federal court in Nashville argues an algorithm is used by landlords and property management companies to artificially shrink housing supplies and drive up rents across the nation.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Housing, rental prices, rentals

A new Tennessee law blocks some immigrants from buying property

Blaise Gainey

May 30, 2023

A new law aims to prevent foreign governments from buying agricultural land in Tennessee. But it has a wide scope that could affect certain people and not just their countries.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: China, Housing, immigrant, immigrants, Jason Zachary, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, TIRRC, tnleg, tnpol

A coalition of nonprofits wants Nashville’s next mayor to focus on the city’s future: its children

Alexis Marshall

May 22, 2023

Even though kids can’t vote, they’re the top priority for a coalition of nonprofits. The Nashville Child and Youth Collaborative has released a five-point agenda for candidates in the city’s mayoral race.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Education, Housing, Mayoral Race 2023, Nashville Collaborative on Children and Youth, Nashville mayor, youth mental health

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