The
Potential for Workforce Housing in Downtown Nashville
January 17th
5:15
PM
(in cooperation with
The Downtown Partnership’s
Workforce Housing Task Force)
The Urban
Land Institute defines Workforce Housing as affordable dwellings intended for those
with an income from 60% - 120% of median income within a defined context,
often characterized as nurses and teachers, police and firemen...
This is a timely and emerging topic in Downtown Nashville, indeed
all of Metro, as an unmet market need. Recent polling by Zogby
indicates
that 63% of Americans believe providing affordable housing in their
community is very important, yet this concern is almost completely
missing from
the presidential campaign discussion.
Please join us for a brainstorming workshop to address four questions:
-
What positive
factors or incentives now exist to promote the development of Workforce
Housing
in Downtown Nashville?
- What negative
factors or counter-incentives now exist to hinder the development
of
Workforce Housing in Downtown Nashville?
- What significant
opportunities now exist, or could
emerge in Downtown Nashville, to develop Workforce Housing?
- What problems now exist, or could emerge in Downtown Nashville, to halt the development of Workforce Housing?