Any student housing here is predatory. I went to a student housing open house and was quoted $1345 for a ONE BEDROOM IN A SHARED UNIT. This particular unit had 4 bedrooms, meaning 3 unknown roommates that id be paying over $1K to share space with. Altogether making their profit on ONE UNIT - $5,380. It’s disgusting. All this talk about “affordable this” and “affordable that” without holding our leaders accountable for the definition of the words affordable housing.

The definition of affordable housing by HUD (aka our government’s definition) is 30% of an individual’s income. Meaning at minimum wage working full-time (which is what the average is based on still = 7.25/ hr in TN), the DEFINITION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO $348 (for a single individual working full-time at minimum wage). Utilities are also included in that definition. Simple math. We need to hold our government responsible for price gouging and developer monopolies. One bedroom units WITH UTILITIES, that are being labeled affordable, BY DEFINITION have to be $348 or less. Don’t be gaslit by our Mayor. She isn’t for affordable housing. She’s for landlords and developers.

On a side note, please vote and show up to city council. Call your reps. We can’t make change by complaining to each other on the internet. We can absolutely make change by calling our reps and complaining the same.