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Advocate urges Metro to pursue bond-funded 'social housing' and use public land for permanent affordability
Summary
A Stand Up Nashville presenter urged Metro officials to consider a municipal 'social housing' model, funded by a bond-backed housing production fund and sited on public land, to create permanently affordable housing in Nashville.
A representative from Stand Up Nashville delivered a detailed presentation to the Metro Human Relations Commission advocating for municipal tools to create permanently affordable housing, including the use of public land, mixed-income development and a housing-production fund seeded with municipal bonds.
"What if we think about housing not as a way to accumulate wealth, but as a way to house," the presenter said, framing social housing as an alternative to market-driven development that prioritizes profit over long-term affordability.
The presenter summarized how mixed-income projects can cross-subsidize deeply affordable units: for example, an 80/20 split in which market-rate units…
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