On a table strewn with needles, thread, fabric glue and material scraps, Jamyah Burns rests her head in the palm of her hand and sketches a reversible skirt. Across from her, Ashli Wesson weaves thread through lace to finish a felt clutch. The two public...
PowerPoint Presentation June 8, 2015...
The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency will accept applications for elderly only public housing properties from 7:30 a.m. June 8 until 4 p.m. July 6. Applications are available online only at www.nashville-mdha.org. Applicants must be at least 62 years old before July 7. MDHA owns and...
Mayor Karl Dean, state commissioners, local veterans and officials from Buffalo Valley Inc. and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency celebrated the topping out of an affordable housing community for homeless veterans Thursday morning. Located on Williams Avenue in Madison, Patriot Place is expected to...
PowerPoint Presentation May 18, 2015...
Dozens of elementary students have put their creative touches on Cumberland View to make the neighborhood where they live much brighter. Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary School second, third and fourth-grade students, teachers, parents and local artist Andee Rudloff covered three sides of the apartment’s...
Like clockwork, the Parthenon Towers lobby fills with large crowds every midday Thursday. Hands sift through plastic baskets full of potatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes and other harvests. “I really like this service. It is cheaper and more convenient to come downstairs than to walk,” said Martha...
MDHA Executive Director Jim Harbison joined the Rev. Bill Barnes, Mayor Karl Dean, Urban Housing Solutions Executive Director Rusty Lawrence and community leaders on April 10 to break ground on a nearly $3.2 million affordable housing complex in North Nashville. The Barnes Fund for Affordable Housing,...
PowerPoint Presentation March 2015...