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Winnie Forrester is a member of the Metro-Nashville Industrial Development Board and the Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH) Affordable Housing Task Force.
Everyone in Nashville knows someone who has been affected by our affordable housing crisis.
Our city is at an inflection point, where it’s time for an “all hands-on deck” approach to deploy replicable innovative solutions that include our corporate citizens.
Mayor John Cooper announced at his April 29 2021 State of Metro Address that the city’s investment in affordable housing will triple to $37.5 million including future federal American Rescue Plan Funds.
In addition, the Metro Council has passed a non-binding resolution for an estimated $4.5 million annually for affordable housing from future Oracle property taxes.
It’s no secret: our economy is not working for everyone.
For decades, inequality has spiraled out of control while lawmakers have focused on catering to business and special-interest groups.
In the process, working people have been left behind.
Unfortunately, Tennessee could arguably be considered the poster child for many of these ongoing, deep-seated issues.
The good news is that hope is not lost.
We’ve got a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revamp our outdated labor laws and finally begin to level the playing field for all working families, thanks to a monumental piece of federal legislation.
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act
Juliana Ospina Cano is executive director of Conexión Américas.
The United States recognizes April as Financial Literacy Month, but more painfully, April marks the thirteenth month of lives being forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It brings into acute focus the financial fragility of many Americans which has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Of the 15% of Americans who reported losing a job because of the pandemic, lower-income adults were disproportionately unemployed, according to research conducted by Pew during the heart of the pandemic.
Some 56% of workers with lower incomes who lost their job because of the coronavirus outbreak said they were currently unemployed, compared with 42% of middle- and upper-income adults.[1]
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