Groups Search For Housing For Tent City Residents

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Outreach groups are making progress moving dozens of homeless from ‘Tent City’ to permanent housing.
Park Center Homeless Outreach along with the Nashville Homelessness Commission moved ten people into housing since last fall.
Dyan Garton has a permanent home to walk into and out of all because of a group who brought her [...]

Nashville Mayor Wants Tent City Gone by June 6

By Harriet Vaughan • THE TENNESSEAN
June 1 deadline to close Tent City has been recommended in a Homelessness Commission report submitted to Mayor Karl Dean on Wednesday.
Chairman Erik Cole says the commission is working to find housing for those who live in the camp on the banks of the Cumberland River downtown. Some 42 people [...]

Explosion Displaces Former Tent City Residents from Newly Renovated Motel

Video of Mama Bear in her new apartment
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“All the sudden we could physically feel the boom. We knew right then it was something inside the building complex”
I was notified last night about 930PM that a serious explosion had occurred at the Drake Motel, down on Murfreesboro rd. The reason this is significant [...]

Advocates, City Leaders Meet To Decide Fate Of Homeless Camp

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Metro is looking for ways to find permanent housing for people living in a homeless camp overlooking the Cumberland River in Nashville.
Metro Council members, homeless people and advocates met Thursday to determine the fate of the encampment.
The Metro Homelessness Commission met to figure out how many people live in the so-called Tent [...]

Nashville, TN: Many homeless at risk of dying

(Nashville has 2500 to 3000 homeless people, and last year 50 died. Victoria has 1500 homeless people, and last year over 100 died. Perhaps it is because Nashville is a southern state, and here in Victoria it rains for many months. If they consider this a crisis in Nashville, then what do we have here [...]

Supporters Rally To Save Nashville’s Tent City

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Friday people have planned to speak out against Nashville’s decision to demolish the city’s unofficial homeless camp.
Supporters and residents of tent city have scheduled a rally outside City Hall today in efforts to save the makeshift establishment. Supporters insisted that providing housing is a better solution than destroying the only housing many [...]