The Unanchored Target
Nashville’s target, 90,000 new homes by 2034, that no report or headline has anchored. A sensemaking piece for the articles from the weekend of August 15 supporting analysis and opinion that follows.
Chris Remke
Independent analysis of planning, development, public policy, and the decisions that shape the places we share.
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Nobody Says From When: The Whole File on Nashville's 90,000 Households by 2034
It opens with the short version, one key paragraph. Everything under that becomes the working file.
Nobody Says From When: The Whole File on Nashville's 90,000-Home Target
If you have ever repeated that number, in a hearing, in print, or across a kitchen table, it is worth knowing that it counts homes added since some year, and no document has ever said which one.
Behind the 90,000 · Exhibit A: The Reconstruction
The working file behind Parts One and Two. Every lever in Metro's 90,000-home forecast, isolated and tested against the county's own data.
The Pattern and the Playbook: How Nashville’s Housing Math Kept Its Job
Part 1 counted the homes. Part 2 follows the number that would not die: eight published steps, one aggressive forecast, a doubled input, and a peer review that graded the recipe instead of the meal.
More Homes Than Households: Nashville Already Passed Metro’s 2034 Household Forecast
The city’s density push rests on one number. The county’s own count already passed it. Part One of two: the count. Part Two: the pattern.
One Year In
A letter to the readers who sustained and shared this work, and to everyone thinking about who Nashville is to become.
One Year In
A letter to the readers who sustained and shared this work, and to everyone thinking about who Nashville is to become.
A Promise Is Only as Good as What Requires It to Be Kept
After Nashville's Council voted to preserve The Nations' murals, one question remained: What in the adopted document requires anyone to save them?
The Nations' Wall of Murals Is on Life Support — Tonight, Council Votes
BL2026-1423 | Metro Council final reading TONIGHT, July 21, 2026 - 5901 California Avenue
The Wall Says “We Are The Nations.” So Far, Planning and Council Bills Say, Tear It Down
Will today bring the mystery amendment with enough teeth to require the developer to fund a collaboration with the artists and the community that preserves the murals?
The Canvas of Music City: A Study of Nashville's Mural Art, related Urban Tourism, and "The Nations Wall"
Documentation of study to inform the article:
Handled: The Developer Handles the Council Member, and the Council Member Handles the Rest
The neighborhood, the Planning Commission, and the Metro Council.
The House of Lies keeps building itself in public. A rescue plan from the sponsor of the destruction
Watch last night's laying of a new yarn on Channel 5.
Where in the Plan is the Mural Wall Preserved?
What happened at Tuesday night’s hearing, what the record actually shows, and what we do before third reading.
The Nations Voted 66% No. Their Councilperson Moved to Approve It Anyway. It Won't Stop There.
What is happening in District 20 is a warning for all of Davidson County. Here is the top-down playbook our neighborhoods are up against - and how we can demand better.
Reference Information for BL2026-1423 - The Nations - Altera California SP Amendment
This supplement is for reference to posts links to the Neighborhood provided information, no edits are made to the text by this writer.
The Property Line Illusion at The Nashville Zoo
Protected Species Do Not Know Where Property Lines Begin and End
Lost in the Shuffle: Are We Building a Place, or Just Warehousing Bedrooms?
June 5, 2026 - Addendum to "2023SP-009-002 (Altera California SP Amendment)
The Seaside Lesson: When Politicians Play Planner, They Copy the Density but Forget the Soul
Part 2 - Chapter 1 - The Seaside Lesson - Why Would People Want to Be There?
Housing, Horse Manure, and Other Signs of Success
The Dark Sucker Theory of Housing Affordability AND Stop Talking About Housing: Why Affordability is Actually a City-Building Problem
"Whodunit" - The Property Tax Camouflage - A Poppy Field Sequel
How do you hide a brutal 25% out-of-pocket tax hike in plain sight, and then ask for a pat on the back?