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Partnership will address code violations with home repairs Metro announces initiative with Rebuilding Together Nashville to prevent displacement

As Metro attempts to address local housing needs through zoning policy, a new partnership is channeling its focus on preventing the displacement of longtime Nashvillians.
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City of Charlotte Launches New Accessory Dwelling Units Program The City of Charlotte Housing & Neighborhood Services Department is making it easier for property owners to add accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on their property with the new Queen City ADU Program.

if you're gonna pass a law enabling ADUs (which you should), package it with plan books and forgivable loans in exchange for affordable rents. I regret to inform Nashville that Charlotte appears to be doing something "very cool"

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Reviewing records of ICE, THP immigration operation in Nashville - Nashville Banner A review of records from ICE and THP's immigration sting in Nashville raises concerns about racial profiling and lack of transparency. Advocates demand accountability.

Colleagues @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social and @stelliott.bsky.social obtained 1,700 pages of Tennessee Highway Patrol incident reports that detail the stops and arrests during the May ICE operation in Nashville. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/05/t...

Agenda rundown for next Nashville Metro Council meeting - Nashville Banner The Nasville Metro Council meets Tuesday, and the agenda includes a wide range of appointments, rule amendments, resolutions, and legislative proposals.

The Metro Council will consider a River North rezoning and a potential 308-acre expansion of Beaman Park at its meeting on Tuesday. Here’s our rundown of the agenda:

✏️: @stelliott.bsky.social

Hey Nashville! Join us at the Southern Festival of Books where Serina K. Gilbert and I will be discussing From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land: Stories of a Tennessee Reconstruction Community.

Our Session begins at 3 pm and will be broadcast on
C-SPAN. 🧵

www.sofestofbooks.org/schedule

Grown-up NIMBY lady lives in a house her parents own.

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For fans of architecture, did you know that Nashville, TN has SO MUCH Black architecture that there's an entire driving tour you can take to see the 9 most prominent buildings? Written by our own @learothawms.bsky.social it is FREE on Nashville Sites.
nashvillesites.org/tours/mckiss...

I cannot agree with @rollinhorton.bsky.social more. Housing preservation is just as vital as new development, particularly for those most vulnerable to displacement.

Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

Kentucky hospital group warns of closures, reduced services, job losses due to Medicaid cuts Healthcare in Kentucky is facing a tough future with billions in Medicaid cuts on the horizon, according to the Kentucky Hospital Association.

Kentucky hospital group warns of closures, reduced services, job losses due to Medicaid cuts www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

It’s official. Just tap.

It just got easier to #RollwithWeGo.

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Michael Shannon is James Garfield

Nick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

For more info on this day and a look at the villains responsible for it and other acts of terror in the Music City, check out @betsyphillips.bsky.social Dynamite Nashville.

Musk-Altman Showdown Over OpenAI Overhaul Set for March Trial A federal judge set a March trial in Elon Musk’s challenge to Sam Altman’s plans to overhaul OpenAI’s business structure, setting the stage for a high-stakes clash between the two billionaires.

A federal judge set a March trial in Elon Musk’s challenge to Sam Altman’s plans to overhaul OpenAI’s business structure, setting the stage for a high-stakes clash between the two billionaires.

newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

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Thought I was running late but looks like either they were waiting for me or technical difficulties. We are going to build so many homes for flamingos.

Josh Haston is speaking in support of RS2025-1101, which requests depts to "research and determine the feasibility of the
creation of a special revolving loan fund to issue loans for affordable housing that allow for smaller investments from members of the Nashville community."

Nashville judge Cheryl Blackburn to retire after 29 years - Nashville Banner Longest serving Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Cheryl Blackburn to retire after 29 years on the bench, amid competency concerns.

BREAKING: Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Cheryl Blackburn is retiring after ~30 years. This comes after the growing concerns among attorneys about her competency on the bench, which the Banner covered extensively last year. nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/12/n...

Hemingway, evergreen

🚨 OEM Weather Update 🚨
OEM teams are actively responding to storm impacts across the county. Stay alert and avoid hazardous areas!
📍 NDOT:
🌳 5 trees down
🚧 3 barricades placed (Nesbitt Ln/Dickerson Pike, Edmonson Pike/Blackman Rd, 3901 Knight Dr)
🚦 5 signal calls

"There is an easy step we can take to make housing more affordable in Nashville...the most affordable housing in Nashville is often the house you are already in," says Ferrell.

Mary's Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Que closes after 60 years - Nashville Banner Mary's Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Que, a Nashville institution, closed its doors for the last time, leaving a lasting legacy and memories for its loyal customers.

Mary’s Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Que closed on Saturday, and the sendoff was "like a block party,” according to owner Katresa Fizer. The Jefferson St. institution has been a gathering place for generations, drawing customers from across the city and weathering decades of change in North Nashville.

INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE For the past four years, disastrous immigration policies transformed every State into a border state by flooding them with illegal aliens, including criminals convicted of crimes in their home country, violent international gang members, and suspected ISIS terrorists. Illegal immigration imposes significant costs on the States and their people. And creating incentives for illegal immigration puts lives at risk. Allowing virtually anyone born on American soil to claim American citizenship creates incentives for illegal immigration and exacerbates States’ costs. Amici Curiae are the States of Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming which submit this brief in support of Defendants.

In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

TSU receives $1M HUD grant for gentrification research - Nashville Banner Tennessee State University receives $1 million grant for a research center on gentrification, displacement, and HUD's Housing Choice Voucher program.

TSU received a $1 million federal grant from HUD to create a center to study housing affordability and the effects of gentrification.

Dr. Rafael Harun, the P.I. for the grant, told the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social he sees a "gap in research in lived experience."

Thanks, DJ! Rebuilding Together Nashville is committed to housing preservation and aging-in-place as fundamental piece of the larger affordability puzzle. Thank you for your support and amplification of our work.

Nashville's One Weird Trick for Reviving the Starter Home It turns out that if you make it easy for local developers to build starter homes, they will build a lot of them.

Across the US, infill starter homes have disappeared. That is, except in Nashville. To understand why the Music City has bucked the trend, I sat down with @charlescgardner.bsky.social to discuss the obscure law making it possible. mnolangray.substack.com/p/nashvilles...

I’m going to start a new thread because I think these are really important questions and I don’t think I’ve publicly shared all of my thoughts, though it might all be out there in piecemeal. /1

The Building Culture Podcast - episode 29

Fun podcast episode with @mnolangray.bsky.social & Chuck Marohn of @strongtowns.bsky.social

Host: @austintunnell.bsky.social
Who I found out from his Bluesky profile, is like myself, a recovering CPA.

Wealth gap between homeowners and renters is huge, report says - Marketplace Homeowners' median net worth is about $400,000. Renters? Just $10,000, according to the Aspen Institute's Financial Security Program.

If you can buy a house in your 20s or early 30s, “and pay off that 30-year mortgage over time, you’re going to build wealth much earlier and accumulate more over your lifetime,” said Chris Herbert, managing director @harvard-jchs.bsky.social.

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