Listen Nashville’s housing agency is about to submit its five-year plan to the federal government, and much of it centers on overhauling two more public housing developments in South Nashville. In recent years, MDHA has refocused on its original mission of building affordable housing rather than civic projects. The document is long and epically wonky, […]
A Bold New Public Housing Plan For Nashville Is Not Without Risk
Listen Nashville’s housing authority says that by summer’s end every single unit of public housing in the city will no longer be traditional public housing. It’s part of a sweeping overhaul of Nashville’s low-income developments, many of which date back to the late 1930s. The bold concept means asking the federal government to hand over the title […]
MDHA Says Its Next Project Could Be A Partnership With Fisk University
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.
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