5 THINGS TO KNOW
RTN performs essential home repairs for Nashville residents, preserving affordable homeownership, and
BARNES IS CRUCIAL TO RTN’S MISSION while helping us make even more funding relationships
$1.8M
IN BARNES FUNDS
Since 2017, The Barnes Housing Trust Fund has been an essential funding source for Rebuilding Together Nashville. Barnes not only helps directly fund our crucial work revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives, but helps us secure matching dollars.
organizations that have contributed matching funds to RTN.
RTN, with the help of Barnes Funding, has been able to continue to grow capacity and reach, helping more and more Nashvillians
In addition, our development team works tirelessly to supplement Barnes Funding by creating and maintaining relationships with influential local and national organizations. To date, 7 different organizations have supported RTN with donations of $100,000 or more. with the help of the Barnes Round 4 Funding RTN has been able to:
NASHVILLE HOMEOWNERS are the heart of RTN 3
Above | Mr. Simmons, long time Hillhurst resident and armed services veteran, in November, 2024, outside his home during a volunteer [Re]Building Day.
Right | Volunteers from Lowe’s, working on new mailbox support, to ensure mail and emergency vehicle access for Mr. Simmon’s home.
MR. SIMMONS
During our work on Mr. Simmons home, we were able to install grab bars and new accessible fixtures in both of his bathrooms to avoid falls, replace aged and usafe waterlines, secure and provide new railings inside and outside, add bracing to an essential structural beam in the attic, and provide adequate light fixtures to help Mr. Simmons navigate with low eyesight. To the right you can see all of the factors on our Safe and Healthy Home CheckList, plus some additional items, we were able to repair in order to ensure Mr. Simmons’s and his family’s ability to remain living safely in their home.
BARNES FUNDS
SECURE DOORS & WINDOWS STRUCTURAL SAFETY ACCESSIBLE & SAFE RESTROOMS
VISIBLE HOUSE NUMERALS
ADEQUATE SMOKE DETECTORS
SAFE STAIRS AND RAILINGS
SAFE LIGHTING LEVELS
PRESERVATION IS INCREASINGLY URGENT IN NASHVILLE 4
Nashville is experiencing the most intense gentrification in the United States according to a recent report published by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. This means that longtime Nashvillians are currently, and will continue to be displaced. As more and more Nashvillians in every part of our city experience the pressure of displacement, Nashville’s historic housing stock, and homeowner population is in danger of disappearing.
Data shows homeowners are more involved in civic engagement and volunteerism and are more likely to vote compared to renters. Homeownership can also lead to greater neighborhood satisfaction and have some indirect effects lowering crime rates.*
Through preservation of existing homeownership by repairing homes at relatively low investment, we can keep long-time Nashvillians, and their famlies, for generations to come right here in Nashville.
05 * “Reexamining the Social Benefits of Homeownership after the Housing Crisis” William M. Rohe and Mark Lindblad. Joint Center for Housing Studies, August 2013.
Data
GENTRIFYING CENSUS TRACTS
GENTRIFYING CENSUS TRACTS
FOR EVERY $1,000,000
INVESTED IN HOME REPAIRS, RTN CAN...
$20,000,000 PRESERVE OVER IN HOME VALUE.
*estimate based on 2025 assessed home values
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR NASHVILLE FAMILIES?
WEALTH THAT CAN BE PASSED DOWN TO LONG-TIME NASHVILLIANS
PRESERVING SAFETY NETS FOR NASHVILLE’S CURRENT AND FUTURE WORKFORCE
FINANCIAL SECURITY FOR OLDER NASHVILLIANS ON FIXED INCOMES
INVESTING THE SAME AMOUNT TO BUILD NEW CONSTRUCTION MARKET RATE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES can build 1-4 new homes, potentially unaffordable to long-time residents, without any investment in other community resources.
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FUNDING RTN IS A GREAT RETURN ON INVESTMENT (and more effective than new construction with less money)
Every dollar invested in RTN directly supports empowering a Nashville homeowner staying in their home. To provide homeowners with all of the tools they need to keep living in their homes, RTN offers wrap-around services by working with local partners like The Store and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing to provide access to groceries, financial literacy and community mental health resources - all of this in addition to our core home repair programs.
