Nashvillians struggling to afford homes inside city limits [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – This isn’t your grandfather’s Music City, and it definitely isn’t your grandfather’s housing market. Over the last two decades, this sleepy southern city has grown up, and up, and up.

Sparkly high-rise apartment buildings are now situated between landmarks like the Batman building and the Capitol. However, what happens when the people who call Nashville home can’t afford to live here?

“The whole ‘American Dream,’ white picket fence with two kids and a dog,” described Diamond Bell.

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However, sometimes it’s not as easy as it sounds.

“That’s so out of our reach right now. I cannot see that. I’m literally trying to figure out how I’m going to make it to Friday right now, let alone buy a house. That’s the reality of most the folks living here,” Bell continued.

When it comes to housing affordability, we hear it repeatedly. Affordable housing has …