Listen Nashville’s housing authority is in preliminary talks with Fisk University to co-develop its campus along with a nearby public housing complex, an official said Monday at a Metro Council budget hearing.
New Federal Program Clears Way For Nashville’s Housing Agency To Partner With Private Investors
Listen Nashville has taken a big step forward in its plans to overhaul the city’s aging public housing. It involves transferring federal property over to the housing authority itself, which means the city’s housing agency now owns the James A. Cayce public housing projects outright — for the first time ever since it was built […]
Nashville’s Housing Agency Gets Into A Catfight Over … Cats
Listen It all began with an email. The subject: Dead Bird at the Legal Department Steps. The culprit was unknown, but it was likely Lizzie, Darcy or Tux, three cats who hang around the Metropolitan Development Housing Agency’s administration buildings in the James Cayce homes. They’re fed by staff. They’ve even been fixed and vaccinated.
The Big, Bold Year Ahead For Nashville’s Public Housing
Listen 2018 is going to be a big year for public housing. Nashville will be renovating, or planning renovations, for four public housing developments — The James Cayce homes in East Nashville, the Edgehill Homes in South Nashville and the JC Napier and Sudekum apartments, just south of downtown. All together they’re home to about […]
In A First, Metro Housing Agency Approves Funding For A $25 Million Charter School
Listen The Metro Housing Board moved ahead on a plan to pay for the construction of a $25-million-dollar East Nashville charter school. It’s an unprecedented financing move that opens up the agency to risk by acting as both the developer and the lender for the project.
New Mixed-Income Residence In East Nashville Aimed At Bridging A Neighborhood’s Growing Divide
Listen Nashville’s housing authority took a major step toward creating the city’s new vision of public housing, which hopes to break up blocks of concentrated poverty with varying levels of income. Metro broke ground Wednesday on a new mixed-income building in East Nashville’s James Cayce Homes. Called Kirkpatrick Park, it will be the first of […]
James Cayce Homes Will Get A New Name, Pulled From The Past
Listen Nashville’s housing authority has decided to rechristen its largest public housing complex. The James Cayce Homes will eventually become Boscobel Heights.
Ryan Ready to Leave MDHA
The man in charge of the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency says it’s time to step down. Phil Ryan has worked for the office for more than two decades, serving as director for roughly half that time.
Forecast: More Places to Work and Play Downtown
A new study predicts more growth in downtown Nashville, especially when it comes to retail and office space. But it comes with the caveat: parking must improve.
Metro Looking to Fill Lofts With Creative Community
Developers are almost ready to hear from people who want to live in a new, affordable apartment building near downtown Nashville. But there’s a catch. Ryman Lofts is intended just for artists.
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