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Director Hubbard presents Unified Housing Strategy outlining 7 strategies and 10‑year implementation plan
Summary
Metro’s Unified Housing Strategy (UHS) presentation to the committee laid out seven strategies, more than 40 actions, a 10‑year implementation plan and annual priorities; staff estimated a need for roughly 90,000 new homes over 10 years with a priority gap of approximately 20,000 homes affordable at or below 60% AMI.
Director Angie Hubbard presented the Unified Housing Strategy (UHS), an umbrella plan to align Metro, nonprofit, private and philanthropic efforts to address Nashville’s housing affordability and security needs over the next decade.
Hubbard said the UHS is a “collective call to ownership” and that Metro cannot solve the crisis alone. The UHS includes a 14‑page executive summary, a full technical report, and a separate 10‑year implementation plan listing lead agencies, partners, resource needs, and timelines. Hubbard emphasized the plan is a living document that will adapt to market and funding changes and noted Metro will publish annual policy priorities tied to appropriations.
Key findings presented by Travis Miller from the UHS analysis include: increased housing demand driven by population and smaller household sizes; constrained housing production since 2008; worsening affordability with housing costs rising faster than median incomes; limited housing choice; challenges to homeownership;…
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