Mixed-Income Housing – Nashville, TN

Mixed-income plan could lift Nashville public housing, By Joey Garrison, May 16, 2013, USA Today: “Long before Nashville’s Cumberland River found new life as an attraction, a slum community thrived along its East Bank. It grew during the Great Depression. And as the federal government systematically built barracks in cities for the poor in the 1940s, many inhabitants found their next home nearby: a new publicly subsidized housing development erected where a women’s college and mansion had been torn down near East Nashville’s Shelby Avenue. Here, on 64 rolling acres, emerged the James A. Cayce Homes, the doorstep to East Nashville and the city’s largest public housing neighborhood, shadowed by a loud interstate and plagued historically by crime and poverty. But today, as once-forgotten, now-buzzing East Nashville continues its rebirth, the city’s most visible swath of public housing — suddenly occupying a coveted location — is the subject of a planning process to rethink and potentially tear down, rebuild and overhaul the community…”