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7 More Nashville Neighborhoods Clamor for Parking Rights City pauses residential permitting and commissions a review BY ELI MOTYCKA

8 Street View: Making Nashville’s Party Vehicles More Accessible The folks behind new pedal tavern designs are fighting for disabled people’s right to party BY LENA MAZEL

10 Niche Businesses Keep Berry Hill Distinctive The Davidson County satellite city maintains its community feel and loyal followings BY HANNAH HERNER

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13 The Workers Nashville Needs Are Afraid to Show Up As immigration fears keep workers off job sites, Middle Tennessee’s homebuilders face a tight labor market and the prospect of delays and higher costs

10 Killjoy in Berry Hill • PHOTO: ANGELINA CASTILLO

BY JP OLSEN

MUSIC

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35 Drama Queen

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Edie Brickell jumps into a new era with supergroup World Famous Pets

27 Before Their Time What happens when restaurants open in neighborhoods that aren’t ready for them? Some business owners say those failures set them up for their next acts.

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Ian Edward White photographs Middle Tennessee’s suburban/rural youth culture BY JOE NOLAN

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36 The Spin

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31 Gen Z Wasteland

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MANY RESIDENTS WILL have to wait for the small, printed passes that have become a new Nashville currency as more cars crowd residential streets. Neighborhoods have increasingly petitioned Metro to lock down street-by-street parking rights via residential parking permits (RPPs). The issue bubbled over in 12South this summer as cross streets became parking lots for the popular shopping district, prompting the Metro Traffic and Parking Commission to pause the permit process altogether at its July meeting. Increased overlap between residential and commercial properties has brought patrons into neighborhoods like Lockeland Springs, North Nashville, McFerrin Park, Midtown and Sylvan Park. Weekend crowds flock to 12South, where residential streets branch off the main commercial strip. Commissioners want to study these patterns — particularly with an eye on increasing parking-spot turnover throughout the day — to help address a debate that’s spreading beyond just a few hotspots. Paid parking has expanded too, with 2.41 million hours purchased in fiscal year 2026 (up from 1.86 million in FY25) for $6.7 million (up from $4.7 million); the city issued more than 76,000 parking citations during the same period, a 53.5 percent annual increase, about half for expired parking. Tighter parking regulations are a Big City Issue straining residents and businesses as Nashville tries to re-urbanize itself. “It’s a geometry problem and a cultural thing — Nashvillians are accustomed to being able to park close to where they’re going and leave without much fuss,” says District 5 Councilmember Sean Parker, who also sits on the Traffic and Parking Commission. “More people want to be here. They bring the largest thing they

own with them and need to store it, and there’s not enough space. The best solution is getting around without personal vehicles — carpooling, taking transit, taking a bicycle.” Parker defends the city’s paid parking spots, which have taken over the urban core in recent years. When popular Tex-Mex restaurant Redheaded Stranger drew crowds and cars to McFerrin Park in his East Nashville district, annoyed neighbors protected their curbs with traffic cones. When restaurant employees began moving the cones, Parker saw tension escalating, and used RPPs to help broker peace between the business and neighborhood. Two streets in the neighborhood — Arrington and Hancock — are now among the city’s small but growing network of reserved curb parking. So far, such accommodations have been granted for about 50 city blocks concentrated around Music Row, Five Points, Belmont, Edgehill and 12th Avenue South. Pittsburghers use the “parcha” — short for “parking chair” — to unofficially reserve space on Pennsylvania streets. Handmade signs, creative punishments, word of mouth and embossed permits help enforce order across America when it comes to street parking, a daily hazard in cities where population density has crossed an invisible threshold. It’s the expected cost of living for car owners in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, D.C. and Boston, all breezy compared to Manhattan — where elaborate machinery stacks and sorts cars in compact lots for commuters who pay handsomely for private commutes downtown. Nashville is quickly catching up. Paid lots, city meters and space-searching headaches have become regular obstacles for drivers here. Free,

easy parking has gone extinct in hot spots like 12South and Five Points as residents struggle for a new equilibrium. A mix of office, residential and commercial buildings brings cycles of traffic to Midtown throughout the day. But since the city put in paid parking two years ago, 18th Avenue South stays mostly empty overnight, says Bo Gutierrez, who leads a homeowners’ association of about 70 residents on the block near Division Street. Rather than overcrowded free parking, his street is dealing with charges imposed by the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure that have cleared out parking altogether, often pushing cars to other blocks. “NDOT is predatory with their ticketing — they sit out here at 5:45 in the morning and wait for 6 a.m. to hit,” Gutierrez tells the Scene from a stoop outside of his condo. “So our streets are bare, and it’s a ghost town. My wife does not feel safe walking the dog outside with nobody on the streets. We want life and activity, and we want nothing for free — we just want to pay so we can park in front of our houses.” Gutierrez says he’s battling through a yearslong application process with NDOT for residential parking permits on behalf of his neighbors. (Gutierrez, who has one vehicle, uses his condo’s single private spot.) The city approved his first petition, which required signatures from 70 percent of residents supporting the change. But he says no one came to his street to put up new signs. After he resubmitted, Metro bounced his second petition as a duplicate in March 2026. He says the city’s temporary moratorium has frozen his third try. For its part, NDOT wants to offer the forthcoming 12South parking study as an example for a whole-city strategy. Initial findings are expected in December, and final study recommendations will take until April. They back the study as a potential reset button for standards that can be applied across Nashville. “Generally speaking, the study will look at curb use in both the commercial and residential portions of the study area to determine how to best accommodate the various right-ofway needs,” says NDOT spokesperson Cortnye Stone. “The planning process will include robust data collection and engagement to inform a sound final plan. We definitely won’t be starting from scratch on this, and have a pretty significant amount of community feedback from prior periods of engagement.” In a cruel twist of fate, Gutierrez spotted a permit behind a neighbor’s windshield last month. He printed his own, a lime-green rectangle with his vehicle’s information and an identification number, from NDOT’s online portal. Gutierrez thought it was a miraculous PHOTO COURTESY OF BO GUTIERREZ

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breakthrough, only to get a $75 ticket when he tried to use it on the street. The piece of paper was legally powerless, NDOT explained, obtained through an online administrative error. Gutierrez documents the ongoing drama to get permits for his block on Do Better Nashville, a website listing his grievances with city bureaucracy and his councilmember, Terry Vo, whom he criticizes as unresponsive and inconsistent in explaining the complicated application process. Vo says she’s helped answer Gutierrez’s questions and supported his petition. She also backs the city’s current moratorium. “Free parking is not sustainable — in any large city, where do you get free parking?” says Vo, who represents District 17, just before starting a town hall with constituents. “It’s not on the city to subsidize your second or third vehicle, and when people tell me, ‘There’s a parking problem,’ often it’s actually that there’s not enough free parking. Part of that is they are getting gouged by private parking lots too. The issue needs a complete overhaul to be reviewed fully so we can make fair decisions across the whole county.” Vo says the current residential parking permit cost — $10 per year, $25 downtown — should be at least $365, with exceptions for those on fixed incomes. She represents both Midtown and Wedgewood-Houston, where parking woes have become central to neighborhood politics, especially tied to WeHo’s overhaul by AJ Capital and Geodis Park. Soccer games flood surrounding streets with cars and pedestrians, even with the team and city collaborating on a fare-free bus option. For shows, which rarely start before 7 p.m, music venue 3rd and Lindsley now directs patrons to $2 hourly parking at the city’s nearby office complex, which clears out after 5 p.m. Parker suggests a similar “blended” approach for 12South, where side streets clear out during the day and fill up when residents return at night. As an example, he floats paid parking with a heavily discounted annual cost for residents to maximize public space while balancing multiple uses. A similar approach could solve Gutierrez’s block. A densifying city has lots to celebrate, like new restaurants and businesses. But it doesn’t take another study for Nashvillians to see that the golden age of abundant, free and convenient parking is over. ▼

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MAKING NASHVILLE’S PARTY VEHICLES MORE ACCESSIBLE The folks behind new pedal tavern designs are fighting for disabled people’s right to party BY LENA MAZEL

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Last year, Grace Lewis had an idea. She’d been to downtown Nashville with her family, and they’d thought about riding a pedal tavern together. But Lewis’ mom, who has limited mobility, couldn’t climb into the vehicle without a ramp. And even if they got onto the vehicle, the seats wouldn’t offer much support. That’s when Lewis, owner of local pedicab company Local Bike Taxi, had an idea. What if she invented a pedal tavern that accommodated disabled people? After months of design and discussion, that idea will soon be a reality. Nashville’s first Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant pedal taverns will be on the streets in the next six months. Lewis’ idea started simple, with plans to retrofit a pedal tavern with seats that could offer some lumbar support, a ramp and space for a wheelchair. But as she spoke to more local disabled people, her design gained more features. At the recommendation of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife, Lewis joined forces with Dr. Cynthia George, a punk rock musician and disability rights advocate. George, who often goes by “Dr. Cyn,” leads Disabled to the Front, a group that’s working with the night mayor, local venues and the Office of Nightlife to help disabled people get better access to what many Nashvillians take for granted — the right to party. With Disabled to the Front, George has helped venues better understand accessibility needs. As a musician and a disabled person, they’ve seen these issues play out first-hand. But they had an advantage, because so much of the community already knew them. “I sing in a band and I grew up in Nashville, so I have always felt welcomed in venues,” says George. “I could just call up.” “But the more I had those needs, the more I needed accommodations from venues I didn’t really know,” they say. “I saw how difficult it was to get venue owners to answer their email sometimes, and I became so grateful for my inside connections to be able to get things done. “That’s why I started the group,” George continues. “To share my privilege with other people with disabilities.” With her pedicab company, Lewis has also seen how difficult it can be for disabled people to access music and nightlife venues. “She’s down there and she has seen people with dis-

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abilities stranded,” says George. Oftentimes, disabled people have to wait until everyone else at shows has gone home before they can catch a ride with the WeGo Access bus. To meet this need, pedicabs can provide a crucial service for some disabled people downtown, bridging the gap between inaccessible dropoff DR. CYNTHIA GEORGE points and the doors of a venue, or (LEFT) AND GRACE LEWIS anywhere else someone might want to go. But their size means they can’t accommodate all types of mobility aids. new vehicles. Lewis’ experience working downtown — and The two designs will accommodate different her friendship with many members of Disabled markets. Badaszewski’s design provides conveto the Front — has shaped her pedal tavern. Her nience, since it can be converted to and from an design accommodates a diversity of needs, with existing conventional pedal tavern to accomspace for either two mobility devices side by modate groups with one person in a wheelchair. side (like a wheelchair or rollator) or a mobility While less conventional, Lewis’ pedal tavern device beside a bench, allowing a disabled perwill accommodate a wider range of disabilities son and their caregiver to sit side by side. It will (though she has said that non-disabled people also have spaces large enough for “oversized” can book the service too). mobility devices that aren’t always accommoWhile discussions of accessibility in Nashville dated by other accessible transport. And then often focus on the city’s incomplete, inconsisthere are Lewis’ favorite features: a rollout ramp tent sidewalks or other transportation issues, to allow people to be dropped off directly on the those are just pieces of a larger puzzle. Like any sidewalk, and comfortable bright-pink seating group of people, Nashville’s disabled commufor people who might want — or need — more nity has a variety of wants and needs. As George support. has seen, some disabled people really want to Lewis has a pedicab operator’s love for tinparty. Downtown transpotainment can be part kering as well as an associate’s degree in meof that. “Where normally people with wheelchanical engineering. As her design has evolved chairs have to go through agony to get to the to accommodate different bodies, she’s gotten second location, the pedal tavern makes it fun,” creative. On a call with the Scene, she explains says George. “It’s designed to keep the party goher design choices while scrolling through eBay, ing from stop to stop.” looking for retired airline seats for the pedal tavBoth ADA-accessible pedal taverns will be ern’s new pink bench. “There’s a lot of different a world first, and both George and Lewis have devices out there that have been created, and already heard from people in other cities who it’s just thinking about how you can repurpose want accessible party vehicles of their own. them to the needs you have,” she says. Lewis Looking at the bigger picture, George says Nashsays she will probably use seats from Southwest ville has a real chance to make lasting change planes, since the leather will hold up against as a disability-friendly city, particularly ahead of drink spills or bad weather. They’ll be bright Nashville hosting the 2034 Special Olympics. pink like her pedicabs, and one member of DisFor George, this fight is over so much more abled to the Front, Emily Grooms, has already than just a pedal tavern. Backed by their acaasked Lewis for them to include a plaque with demic research in social change and prevention Grooms’ name somewhere on them. science, they know community is a crucial part On Aug. 18, Metro’s Transportation Licensing of a good life. Commission heard two cases for construction of “Without access to social networks and accessible pedal taverns. One was from Lewis, meaningful social connection, what is the and the other was from Jake Badaszewski of point?” says George. “While I’m saying I’m fightEvery Body Rides, who has built an ADA-accesing for disabled people’s right to party, I’m really sible design with a ramp, wheelchair space and fighting for disabled people’s right to live.” ▼ a removable seat that can be swapped out to accommodate someone in a wheelchair. Both parties were awarded permits to construct the PHOTO: ERIC ENGLAND

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NICHE BUSINESSES KEEP BERRY HILL DISTINCTIVE The Davidson County satellite city maintains its community feel and loyal followings BY HANNAH HERNER THERE IS LIKELY no other neighborhood on the planet that hosts a store dedicated to miniatures, a scuba shop, a balloon-based business, a crystal store, a store dedicated entirely to nonalcoholic beverages and the headquarters of the people who make trampoline shoes. “It just works for us to be a niche business,” says Rob Harris, owner of Island Hoppers Scuba, located at 2806 Bransford Ave. “People will drive from an hour, hour-and-a-half away to come here.” Island Hoppers has … well, hopped around the neighborhood since it opened in 2010, starting in a 900-square-foot spot on Iris Avenue and landing at its current 2,500-square-foot home. The company has built a loyal following, keeping the refrigerator stocked and the kitchen ready to host gatherings in the converted home ahead of monthly diving trips. The niche business model has worked quite well for the Harris family. Rob’s wife Dawne Harris opened her wallpapering business Stella + Cole in June 2025, becoming one of the few wallpaper specialists in the area. The reason Berry Hill feels like no other neighborhood could be that it’s not a neighborhood at all. It’s a satellite city — an independent municipality in Davidson County, separate from Nashville. It has its own police force and local government, led by Mayor Andrew Rusnak. “What I find particularly interesting is the variety,” Rusnak tells the Scene via email. “You can have a recording studio next to a restaurant, next to a professional office, next to a specialty retailer. That mix gives Berry Hill a personality that is pretty unusual for such a small city.” Berry Hill voted to incorporate as its own city in 1950 and retained its separate charter — not unlike fellow satellite city Belle Meade — when Nashville and Davidson County consolidated in 1963. With its own zoning processes, Berry Hill allowed small homes to be converted into commercial spaces and allowed people to live and work in the same building before mixed-use projects became ubiquitous. This means small businesses could and often still can still find places small enough to afford when starting out. It’s changed from a mostly residential to mostly commercial city. Fresh out of college in 2023, Becca Turner — the owner of balloon and event decor business Bundled for You — needed to move her business out of her apartment. But she struggled to find an affordable place that wasn’t too big and didn’t require an extended lease. In August 2024, she moved to a space in Berry Hill. “If you want to pursue your passion, pursue your dream, you can do that, and it’s reasonable here versus in other parts of the city

or anywhere else,” Turner says. “I was looking for an office space. I was almost at a point where I was like, ‘Am I even able to get an office at this point? Is this even an attainable goal?’” Stephanie Styll, co-founder of booze-free beverage shop Killjoy, says when she found a converted home in Berry Hill to open a second Killjoy location, the bureaucracy she faced was nil. She just walked over to city hall, and they handed her the forms. For about the same cost as her East Nashville location, she gets a full kitchen and more space, plus another precious asset: parking. Berry Hill reminds her of Old Nashville, she says. “It’s just a lot of small businesses that all have charm, and there’s a lot of music studios,” says Styll, whose location is about a quarter-mile from John McBride’s famed Blackbird Studio. “It’s people creating things. It’s still relatively affordable. There’s free parking. You drive around here and it doesn’t feel crowded. You don’t see tourists really.” Each business owner remarks that they feel supported by one another. “Everyone is following their dreams in Berry Hill,” Turner says. Berry Hill is not immune, however, to recent hikes in property value — and therefore property taxes. Plans for Universal Music Group’s $250 million film and music studio campus for the area certainly contributed. Two niche businesses, The Beaded Bungalow and Textile Fabrics, bit the dust in 2024. Still, in addition to Berry Hill’s many niche businesses, restaurants like Pfunky Griddle, Sam and Zoe’s and Baja Burrito maintain loyal followings. Relative newcomers like Vui’s Kitchen have won over locals too. The nearby Nashville Crystal Store supplied some calming, cleansing selenite for Vui’s Juice Cafe. Ataana Badilli has offered healing sessions and classes out of the 819 Columbine Place space for 10 years, establishing the crystal storefront seven years ago. “We’ve been here for a long time, because the energy is really good here,” says store manager Erika Leigh.“There’s a reason that we are here.” ▼

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as immigration fears keep workers off job sites, middle tennessee’s homebuilders face a tight labor market and the prospect of delays and higher costs by jp olsen | photos by hamilton matthew masters

THE WORKERS NASHVILLE NEEDS ARE AFRAID TO SHOW UP BEFORE JESUS (pronounced hey-SOOS) pulls into a gas station on his way to work, he often drives past it and circles back. He’s looking for ICE. Jesus — who asked the Scene to use an assumed name to protect his identity — is 32. He came to the United States when he was 5 and grew up here. After his father was deported, Jesus returned to Mexico with him before eventually coming back to the U.S. He has washed dishes, cooked in Italian kitchens, done construction and, most recently, launched a landscaping business. Because the work takes him across Middle Tennessee, he spends much of his day behind the wheel with tools in his vehicle. Lately, the typical day has acquired another layer of calculation. If a truck at a gas station looks like it might belong to Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents, he keeps driving. “Every day is hard,” Jesus says. “It’s like a silent war.” Recently, a customer asked Jesus to help him find someone to clean his Franklin property. Jesus knows several people who ordinarily would have taken the job in a heartbeat — but no one would make the drive. They were too afraid. “Why don’t Mexicans want to work any-

more?” Jesus recalls the man asking. “Bro,” he remembers thinking, “are you listening to what you’re saying?” There is a distinction between workers disappearing and workers becoming afraid to appear, and Nashville may be in the early stages of discovering just how economically significant that distinction can be. For much of the past decade, the city’s housing dilemma was easy to summarize. Nashville was growing rapidly. Housing prices climbed beyond the reach of longtime residents, and the question was how quickly the city could build. Now the region confronts a less familiar question: What happens to a city built on construction when the labor required to build becomes harder and harder to find? The problem is timing. Housing takes years to plan and build, so the apartments opening today reflect decisions made months or years ago. The effects of a labor disruption now may not become visible to renters until much later. At this writing, Nashville hardly looks like a city on the edge of a market-rate apartment shortage. In the second quarter of 2026, average effective multifamily rents were down 2.8 per-

JUAN ADJUSTS LADDERS MOUNTED ON HIS WORK TRUCK OUTSIDE HIS NASHVILLE APARTMENT cent from a year earlier. Stabilized occupancy stood at 92.3 percent, on par with St. Louis, Kansas City and Oklahoma City, with more than 11,700 apartments under construction across the Nashville market. The region, in other words, has apartments coming out of its ears, even as housing affordable to lower-income Nashvillians remains in desperately short supply. At the start of the development process, however, the numbers look different. Over the past year, multifamily starts fell from 7,575 units to 5,695, according to second-quarter 2026 data from MMG Real Estate Advisors, which tracks multifamily development and transaction trends. Over the same period, the market absorbed 8,512 apartments while developers delivered 6,645. Nashville is still seeing new apartments come online. Fewer projects, however, are breaking ground. Interest rates remain high, financing is tight, and capital markets can determine whether a project gets built at all. After years of extraordinary expansion, some slowdown may simply represent a return to normal. But into that shrinking pipeline comes another variable: labor. “We’ve been talking about the challenges

from a labor and staffing perspective long before immigration enforcement became so aggressive,” says Sergio Barajas, executive director of the National Hispanic Construction Alliance. “This is exacerbating the issue.” The foreign-born workforce is not the same thing as undocumented labor, but undocumented labor is especially concentrated in construction. In 2024, foreign-born workers accounted for 12.4 percent of employment in the Nashville metropolitan area. Among those workers, 18.4 percent worked in construction, compared with 6.1 percent of native-born workers. In May 2025, a weeklong ICE operation in Nashville resulted in 196 arrests, according to the Department of Homeland Security. From May 21 through Oct. 15, ICE made another 3,742 arrests across Tennessee, according to a Prison Policy Initiative analysis of federal data. Each worker, contractor and real estate agent interviewed for this story says they knew at least a few — and in some cases 20 or more — people who had since been deported or detained. This year, Elizabeth Cox and Chloe East released a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper examining places that experienced sudden increases in ICE arrests

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during the second Trump administration. Because government surveys do not record legal status, the researchers used demographic characteristics to estimate which workers were likely undocumented. In areas experiencing enforcement surges, Cox and East found, employment fell 1.4 percent among likely undocumented immigrants who remained in the country and roughly 2 percent in industries where undocumented workers are disproportionately represented — including construction. A KFF/New York Times survey cited by the researchers found that 40 percent of likely undocumented immigrants said they or a family member had avoided work because of immigration concerns. Conventional economic theory offers a simple script, which is to remove an unauthorized worker, create a vacancy and raise the wage until someone takes it. Cox and East found little evidence of that sequence actually taking place. Employment among U.S.-born men also declined in areas experiencing increased enforcement, with no sign that wages rose enough to draw them into affected trades. Researchers Troup Howard, Mengqi Wang and Dayin Zhang found a similar pattern in their study of Secure Communities, a federal immigration enforcement program used from 2008 to 2013. They found that increased enforcement led to less homebuilding and higher prices. Residential construction fell 5.7 percent, about 80 fewer homes a

year in an average-size county, while new-home prices rose 4.5 percent. U.S.-born workers replaced only about 40 percent of the workers lost in lower-skilled jobs, and employment also fell in higher-skilled jobs. Speaking to the Scene, Professor Howard emphasizes that the calculations are complex and that the study does not prove the same thing is happening in Nashville today. Interest rates, financing and other local factors also affect construction, he says, and the effects of one immigration enforcement program may not be the same as another. Tim Lanier, a carpenter and longtime general contractor who remains active in Middle Tennessee construction, says immigration enforcement has compounded a skilled-labor shortage that predates the current crackdown. At the height of his contracting business, he employed around 25 people — roughly half of them Hispanic. Much of the trade is learned informally over years, he tells the Scene, and a worker with a decade of experience cannot be replaced by handing a hammer to a willing volunteer. “It’s hiding in plain sight, and it’s a big issue,” Lanier says. “After our couple of raids, every construction site was shut down, and people didn’t leave their homes. We need more workers, 100 percent.” Barajas and others interviewed for this story say crews in exposed trades — including roofing, framing and exterior work — can thin dramatically after immigration enforcement activity, or even rumors of it. Some subcontractors have removed company signs and logos from their trucks, hoping to attract less attention on the road. “When people disappear from job sites, the work doesn’t shift to someone else,” Barajas says. “It stops.” The effects are not evenly distributed across construction. A general contractor and a concrete worker interviewed for this story say large commercial projects, including downtown sites, are less likely to rely on undocumented labor and have tighter access

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“it’s hiding in plain sight, and it’s a big issue. after our couple of raids, every construction site was shut down, and people didn’t leave their homes. we need more workers, 100 percent.” —tim lanier, longtime general contractor controls, making them less exposed to immigration enforcement. That matters most for lower-priced housing, where margins are thinner. Luxury developments may be able to absorb or pass along higher costs. Affordable projects have far less room to do so. Sarah Beth Paul, a Nashville real estate agent, sees a version of this divide in the resale market. Buyers shopping at $500,000 and above can generally absorb repairs, she says. Below that threshold, even immediate painting, landscaping or power washing can become financially impractical. For years, she depended on contractors who could handle that work affordably. When those workers are unavailable, sellers either wait or turn to larger companies that charge more. “It’s either impossible to find anyone, or it’s too expensive,” Paul says. She has also watched workdays evaporate when rumors of immigration sweeps circulate. The worker loses wages, the contractor loses time, and the seller and buyer wait. Renters may not feel the consequences for years. If developers start thousands fewer apartments now and demand continues to grow, the shortage becomes visible only later, after today’s inventory has been absorbed. For immigrant families, the consequences are immediate. The Mexican nationals interviewed for this story say they understand ICE targeting people who commit serious crimes; what troubles them is the feeling that simply being Mexican brings baseline suspicion. Jesus has started studying how white

landscapers dress and changing his own clothes to blend in. When people mistakenly think he’s Arabic, he admits feeling relief — at least they haven’t identified him as Mexican. Others try to make themselves invisible at home. One worker the Scene spoke with keeps the television barely audible, afraid a noise complaint could bring ICE to the door. “We can’t have a TV on past 8 p.m.,” says Juan, another source who’s asked to be referred to by an assumed name. “We are trying to make ourselves as small as possible.” He continues: “My children are American citizens, and going back [to Mexico], I would lose it all. My job. My tools. My life.” Anne Boatner and Maggie Behringer of the Nashville Hispanic Bar Association Foundation — which will soon be renamed Renters’ Rights of Tennessee — say attorneys frequently hear from immigrant families after a primary breadwinner has been detained. A household can go from paying rent on time to facing eviction in a single afternoon. “Landlords have a fear that they have to ‘check papers’ under the law, and the raids have been a turning point,” Behringer says. “There’s now a kind of permission structure.” Behringer notes that threats to report tenants to federal authorities have spiked since the May 2025 raids, creating coercive leverage against vulnerable renters. “ICE is now being used as a form of extortion,” Boatner adds, describing how some landlords use deportation threats to bypass standard eviction procedures or avoid addressing unlivable conditions.

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Despite having claims under discrimination and housing laws, many clients remain too afraid to seek justice. “What was frustrating was that these cases are winnable,” Boatner says, “but plaintiffs are often not comfortable being represented or appearing in court.” There is another, less visible layer to the vulnerability, a kind of identity-based exploitation. Advocates who work with immigrant communities say abuse can come from within those communities as well, from people who share a language, nationality or background and who understand, perhaps better than anyone, exactly how much a victim may have to lose by asking for help. Luis, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, is a 35-year-old roofer from Honduras who has worked in construction for about a decade. He says people who’ve hired him have used the threat of immigration enforcement to avoid paying him. Luis says this year alone, customers in Gallatin, Franklin and Murfreesboro have withheld nearly $10,000 that he was owed for roofing, framing and other construction work. When Luis pressed for payment, he says, some threatened to call ICE. Others paid him with checks that bounced. He received three such checks this year, totaling between $3,000 and $4,000. Altogether, he estimates unpaid work and bad checks have cost him roughly $13,000. In a typical year, Luis says he grosses between $30,000 and $35,000, while spending several thousand dollars of his own money on supplies and tools. This year, he expects to gross about $18,000. Luis came to the United States about a decade ago after leaving Honduras — under threat of death, he says. “Somebody was trying to kill me,” he says. “You know, poor people …” He trails off.

His experience is personal, but the circumstances he fled are not unusual. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that more than 247,000 Hondurans were internally displaced by violence between 2004 and 2018. Extortion, territorial control by criminal groups, targeted threats and forced recruitment were among the drivers. For Luis, there is a brutal irony. He fled one country because he feared being killed. In Tennessee, he now finds himself threatened with being sent back there by people who owe him money. Supporters of aggressive immigration enforcement make a straightforward case: Construction should not depend on unauthorized labor. Force employers to compete in a legal labor market, the argument goes, and wages and working conditions will improve, automation will increase, and more American workers will enter the trades, even if housing costs rise during the transition. The Department of Homeland Security defended the May 2025 Nashville operation — which ushered in a period of intensified immigration enforcement that continues today — primarily as a public safety measure. “DHS is a law enforcement agency, and it will continue to enforce the law and work with all state and local partners so that Americans do not continue to be victimized by criminal aliens,” the department said following the operation. In written responses, Marcela Escobari, research vice president for global economy and development at the Brookings Institution, says the assumption that displaced workers will be readily replaced overlooks what often happens when workers disappear suddenly. Rather than raise wages until someone takes the job, employers may simply produce less. Construction is particularly vulnerable, because crews are specialized and interdependent. A framing crew

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that loses several workers in a sudden way does not necessarily build more slowly. In some cases, construction all but stops. Escobari says immigration enforcement can reduce not only the supply of workers but also the demand needed to sustain production. She points to evidence that states with the largest increases in immigration arrests in 2025 saw consumer spending fall by 1.7 points. History offers another example. When the agricultural-worker initiative the Bracero

"my labor is wanted, but i'm not wanted." —jesus, landscaper Program ended in 1964, one of the goals was to improve wages and employment for domestic farm workers. Growers responded in part by mechanizing instead. Subsequent research found no significant increase in farm wages or employment. Over time, Escobari says, firms may raise wages, reorganize production, automate parts of the work or otherwise adapt to having fewer workers. But those adjustments can be uneven, slow and costly, and the evidence so far does not show that they are offsetting the near-term job losses associated with increased enforcement. Brookings is now updating its findings with data covering 2025. Escobari says the forthcoming analysis continues to find significant job losses caused by ICE enforcement surges in key cities. The timing is critical: Tennessee continues to gain residents. Census estimates show the

state added 42,389 people through domestic migration between July 2024 and July 2025. At the same time, state law passed this year requires every county sheriff to enter into a 287(g) agreement with federal immigration authorities by Jan. 1, 2027 — under which designated local officers can carry out federal immigration enforcement functions under ICE supervision. Whatever chilling effect Nashville has experienced so far is occurring before that statewide mandate fully takes effect. State Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) argues that those two policy goals — housing affordability and aggressive immigration enforcement — are fundamentally at odds. “The homebuilders in my district are seeing the writing on the wall,” Behn says. “What is the breaking point?” None of this guarantees an immediate housing crisis. The decline in apartment starts may mostly reflect interest rates and tight lending, and the extraordinary construction wave that reshaped the region may simply have run its course. Contractors may adjust. Wages may rise. Today’s apartment surplus could cushion demand for years. But Jesus sees the problem from the ground level. When he can’t make a job, customers call. “If I don’t go the day I am supposed to go,” he says, “the person is like, ‘Are you coming?’” Then he reframes the question. “What happens when we’re not here?” Earlier in his conversation with the Scene, he had captured the contradiction even more simply: “My labor is wanted, but I’m not wanted.” For a region that spent the past decade worrying about whether it could build fast enough, Nashville’s next housing challenge may be harder to spot. It begins when the people required to build it stop showing up. ▼

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