Photo by: Tasha AF Lemley
After years of living with hundreds of women in a local shelter, Karen Brimer calls her new home in Wallace Studios “paradise.”
It’s clear that housing ends homelessness. Today we’re looking at what communities and developers need to do to create permanent supportive housing and make it workable.
Over the course of this series, we’ve taken a closer look at the various aspects of homelessness, examining the Housing First philosophy, the connection between housing and healthcare, prevention efforts, and the manifestations of hidden homelessness. In today’s episode, we’ll focus on the tools available to developers and communities to create supported housing and the support systems needed to help people keep their homes. Additionally, we’ll look at braiding, a financing mechanism used to build housing units for people without income.
In my place informs listeners about what cities like Nashville can do to prevent and end homelessness – while also caring for our neighbors who are still homeless. We talk to national and local guests about everything from best practices to the worst failures, and hear from people who know intimately the complexity of having nowhere to go. This show shows how affordable housing impacts each of us, even when we think it doesn’t.
This series was made possible in part by Pinnacle Financial Partners and produced by Judy Tackett and Tasha AF Lemley.
Our guests today:
Leah Werner | Director of the Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee Program, CSH
Angela Hubbard | Housing Director, Metro Nashville Planning Department
David Langgle-Martin | Senior Housing Officer, Park Center
Anita Smith | Speakers and advocates
Continue in:
• Listen to the latest report about Anita’s new home here.
• Overview Episode of In my place
• Episode 1: Facts and faces of homelessness
• Episode 2: Housing first
• Episode 3: Strategies for housing construction
• Episode 4: The connection between healthcare, housing and homelessness
• Episode 5: Preventing homelessness in advance
• Episode 6: Hidden Homelessness
