PATHE Nashville

We are a coalition of ordinary people who are tired of being pushed out of our neighborhoods and communities in the name of "progress"

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

Our 2021 Truth & Reconciliation effort started with one on one conversations with people facing housing insecurity due to the pandemic. @ambriehlc at @WPLN featured Ahmad, one of the first people we spoke with. https://t.co/QX6Ftnlf6N

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

Our local officials have done less than nothing to prevent, track or mitigate rent hikes and
slumlord behavior because soon enough there will be a new base of voters and taxpayers that won't be
such a bother to them. Only direct action will change this and it must start now.

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

This is not a glitch, it's a feature. The state legislature is a convenient blame but the call is coming from inside the house. Displacement of hourly workers is a national trend most predominant in neo-liberal democratic cities.

[Eli Motycka @ejmotycka]

Main lobbying force behind this multi-million dollar city plan seems to be the Nashville Rowing Club, which had 58 members in 2014.

DMs are open.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Since Section 8 is not an entitlement, families, in many cases, only have 60 days to use their voucher before it expires. This means that if a family is unable to find a landlord that is willing to accept it, they will lose the opportunity to obtain affordable housing.

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[andrea @petalpalis]

Rent control already exists! It just belongs to landlords 🤬

[KLG @klg023]

-report is a set of recommendations. mayors office does not have the authority to implement all as they don’t oversee the CoC. Partnership & collaboration will be needed with community to implement change. A conversation with the HPC and CoC would be a good place to start.

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[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

Fair Leases Matter. Our city is a hotbed for slumlords and they are the largest companies impacting the most people. Elmington and Freeman Webb have weaponized the success of our city against those least able to survive here. https://t.co/sDXXOsemZk

[Arcelia Martin @arcelitamartin]

Karri Gornick, from the Oasis Center, said the report has been used to tear down the community's efforts & question their will to end homelessness.

"As a planning council, you had the will to get some of this done and were unable to implement it," Koch said.

[Arcelia Martin @arcelitamartin]

In the last month, four people who were experiencing homelessness died in Nashville.

Last year was the deadliest year on record for the city's unhoused. https://t.co/ksj0acwamV

[KLG @klg023]

Rather than use the report to reinforce the needs asked for & hard work the community has done, it’s been used to tear down our efforts & question our will to end homelessness. These hurtful statements won’t deter us in our work or willingness to collaborate.

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[KLG @klg023]

Todays presentation to HPC was a continued insult to provider community. You can read my statement from the mtg below.

Let’s focus on what we can do right now. Contact Metro Council & ask them to support BL2021-971 creating an office of homelessness. 3rd reading is on 6/21

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[Sekou Franklin @SekouFranklin]

Perhaps the actual motivation & intent of the pro-growth regime has been to price out moderate-income residents, and make Nashville a place mostly for tourists and a middle-income/affluent tax base in order to pay for the expansive development in recent years.

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

"King calls on the state to enact rent control, along with dozens of others who are pleading for help." https://t.co/rRdoBQ30Hm

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

@WSMV⁩ contacted ⁦@ElmingtonPM⁩ so they can weigh in on this situation; they have not yet sent us a statement explaining why they decided to increase the rent when the AMGI went up and if they plan on increasing rent again this year. https://t.co/sDXXOsemZk

[Judith Tackett @JudyTackettTN]

Racial Equity needs to be addressed in Nashville’s homelessness response. Read about it in my Q&A with @BobbyWatts6 in @TheContributor. Bobby is the CEO of @NatlHCHCouncil, is a national leader on equity, and chairs our CoC’s Diversity and Equity Committee.

[Vicky Batcher @vbatcher50]

Everyone who I've talked to lately about #homelessness tell me about having to live in their car like it's something new when in reality the homeless have done it for years. The government never recognized it as being #homeless

[PATHE Nashville @PATHENashville]

The study looked at data 3 years before, and 3 years after affordable developments moved into neighborhoods. He said the findings of the study debunk the myth that affordable housing increases crime.

"We saw that robbery and assault went down," Tita said. https://t.co/juuWyWPCBA

[Saucy UBI 🇵🇸 @SaucySaidIt]

Homelessness is up 50% in Tennessee so the state made it illegal and punishable with up to 6 years in prison and a felony… shit don’t make no sense…

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@clearairturbul1 @nomoreevictions BuT iF thEy cAnt be SLumLords tHeY wOnT bE LaNDlOrds!

[Karl's Girlfriend @nomoreevictions]

Good afternoon.

Today the team I supervise decided that on every nonpayment of rent eviction case we encountered where the property is not a certified rental under city code we would be asking for a dismissal.

And it worked.