🏠 10,000 new affordable housing apartments

🏙️ The All-Host Podcast Spectacular Returns!

How does Nashville’s news affect the nation, and vice versa? City Cast CEO David Plotz sits down with hosts from across the country, including our very own City Cast Nashville producer Marie Cecile Anderson, to talk about what stories they’re watching in their hometowns that are likely to impact ours, too. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🌼 Wildflower Project Brings Back Indigenous Flowers

Spearheaded by Metro Councilmember Jordan Huffman, the Metro Wildflower Project will bring indigenous wildflowers to locations across Nashville. Indigenous wildflowers are not only important pollinators, but they also reduce flooding. [Nashville Scene]

• You can include indigenous wildflowers in your fall garden! [Hey Nashville]

🏠 Tax Break Program Helps Create Affordable Homes

A property tax abatement program for affordable housing developers, set up by the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency, has led to 10,000 new low-income apartments since its inception in 2016. 6,115 are completed, with 3,898 more on the way. [The Tennessean]

🗳️ Tennessee’s Uncompetitive Elections

According to a new study by voting rights nonprofit Organize Tennessee, Tennessee is in the bottom five states for voter turnout and has uncompetitive elections. The study lists a variety of causes: Racial gerrymandering, the complex felony voting rights restoration process, language barriers, and lack of accessibility. [WPLN]

• Early voting starts tomorrow! Here’s the ballot. [Nashville.gov]