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“There is no place in the country where someone earning the minimum wage can afford even a modest apartment.”

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Posted on August 6, 2008 - 7:09am at Stone Soup Station
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Low-end rent prices in Nashville hover around $500/month (fair market value of an SRO on Murfreesboro Rd near the old Drake Hotel is approximately $480 a month). Many of these places are not where you'd like to call home for very long.

Little Rearranging & LaV Green Update

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Posted on July 27, 2008 - 8:10pm at This Is LaVergne
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“The idea was to enable low-income communities to create their own social spaces and improve their neighborhoods without bringin

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Posted on April 26, 2008 - 6:10am at Stone Soup Station
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Great idea to bring a little respite for those long walks to and from those few available bathrooms around Nashville.

Dell Computer Recycling Event Saturday

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Posted on April 9, 2008 - 1:01pm at Music City Bloggers
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Got Techno-Junk? Get rid of it this Saturday! Via the Nashvillians LiveJournal community comes this info:

WHAT: Dell Computer Recycling Event

WHEN: Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

An Update On Murfreesboro Rd John

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Posted on March 4, 2008 - 8:42am at Stone Soup Station
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Back around the first part of January 08, I posted a story about "John," who at the time was residing in a dumpster behind a restaurant on Murfreesboro rd near downtown. John has a wicked alcohol habit, brought about in large part because of a work related injury he sustained some years ago.

Bible park open house

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Posted on January 31, 2008 - 10:09pm at This is Smyrna, Tn.
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In a push to aliviate the angry, or to tell people of the inevitable, the people behind the Bible park are going to have three open houses to answer all of your questions.

Officials for Bible Park USA have scheduled three public open houses to inform members of the community about the Bible Park themed attraction planned for northwestern Rutherford County.

"Murfreesboro John" Enters the Nasville Rescue Mission Host Program!

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Posted on January 31, 2008 - 7:27am at Stone Soup Station
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530am: I just got off the phone with "John," the man I talked about some time ago who was living in a dumpster over on Murfreesboro rd for the past four years.

He called me from the Nashville Rescue Mission's Host Program! He's now off the street, sober, going through a 90 day rehab and working on restoring his life to something better than living in a trash can.

“At 13-degrees tonight, that's killing cold...”

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Posted on January 3, 2008 - 9:16pm at Stone Soup Station
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The big news here on the street is of course the wickedly cold temperatures Nashvillians have been enduring, especially those who are homeless.

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