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​      Poking its head through South Nashville’s gentrification is an island of poor people (mostly African Americans), with limited resources, surrounded by a sea of people, businesses, and institutions of affluence.  The area, 12th Avenue South and Edgehill, (to the south of the Gulch, north of Wedgewood Avenue, west of 8th Avenue South and east of the alley separating Villa Place and 16th Avenue South) is a Metropolitan Development Housing Agency public housing community where residents’ incomes fall into the low-income bracket, educational attainments have been thwarted, and health benefits are unrealized.  MDHA’s Gernert Studios, a senior citizen complex, and MDHA’s Edgehill Homes house some of the most economically, educationally, and nutritionally deprived residents of Nashville due to high rates of unemployment, unrealized educational levels and food deserts.  However, NeighborHOOD seeks to address this problem.

           

          Gentrification swept out long-time residents with significant ties to this community.  Many of the people who remain feel as though their wants and needs have been glossed over, covered up with sterilized versions of a suburban middle-to-upper class utopian society.  Some residents believe they have literally been forgotten, and the new environment reminds them of how much their community lacks in resources and benefits.

 

            NeighborHOOD, a non profit (ultimately 501(c)3) organization, is collaborating with a team of people and organizations to re-vitalize the lives of these residents by teaching advocacy and empowerment principles via education and training.  The principles will introduce them to entrepreneurship, employment and healthy lifestyle opportunities within or close to their communities, thereby helping to change the face of their communities.    

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