As the Metro Council considers how to address the growing shortfall of workforce housing, a successful project in Philadelphia might show the way forward. And that is good news to Nashville’s teachers, firefighters, police officers, nurses and restaurant and hotel employees.
The project, Paseo Verde, also serves as an example of how Nashville might create economic opportunity and address its worsening traffic congestion by encouraging mixed-income development beyond the urban core and along the city’s main corridors where mass transit is available.
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