WeHome

WeHome gets strangers talking in the rapidly changing Nashville neighborhoods of Wedgewood Houston, Chestnut Hill and Napier. We ask people to tour each other’s lives and tell each other stories, and…

Ruben Torres moved to the South Nashville from Mexico with his family when he was in fifth grade, and they quickly met up with some do-gooders who were out to help families in need. Now, Ruben is the…

Brent Coursey has always had a passion for breathing new life into old things. He opened Woodstock Vintage Lumber in 1996 and moved to Wedgewood-Houston a few years later. He tells the Woodstock stor…

What happens when you put a developer and an affordable housing activist in the room together? Odessa Kelly is the director of Napier Recreation Center and a leader in the movement for affordable hou…

Joe Bradford had already survived poverty, prison, and kidney disease when a little girl asked him to be her father. Now, "Papa" Joe runs a ministry called Elijah's Heart out of the community center …

When Mena Gamil and Makarious Mesak were assigned a project in their freshman seminar at LEAD Academy, they wanted to finish the quarter with a good grade. But the teens were swept away by a big idea…

Artist Amelia Briggs exiled herself to a small Michigan town to figure out if she had the dedication to pursue a career in art. Now, she is the director of Nashville's outpost of David Lusk Gallery, …

Growing up in the 1950s, Ms. Leola Cullom remembers South Nashville as a haven, but forces outside her control have caused major changes to the neighborhood she loves. A young singer named Andrea Eva…

For Frank Whitmore, music helped him find faith in prison. Now's he's home and living in Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry's transitional house in Wedgewood-Houston. Audra Almond-Harvey, the directo…

In 1976, Bill Perkins accidentally attended a block party in a Nashville neighborhood that the city had all but given up on. He liked it so much that he moved in and co-founded a game-changing neighb…