Habitat For Humanity’s Music Row Build Opens Homeowner Application

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville’s Music Row Build (MRB) has opened homeowner applications.

The Music Row Build aims to raise awareness about the Nashville housing crisis and advocate for affordable housing for working musicians and industry professionals and other working locals. Each year, the MRB raises funds through various events to construct a Habitat home for a deserving Nashvillian. All fundraising efforts go towards the annual build as well as a fund that is used to support broader initiatives and goals such as building an entire neighborhood.

“We would love for the Music Row Build to come full circle and have a member of our music community achieve the dream of homeownership with the Habitat home we are building this year. The chance to secure a 0% APR mortgage via the Habitat program is a unique, once-in-lifetime opportunity. I encourage our songwriters, musicians and industry professionals grappling with the challenges of the housing market to seize this chance and submit their applications,” says Penny Gattis, MRB Chair.

Applications for the current community in North Nashville, Village by the Creek, can be submitted online. For more information, click here.

The annual Music Row Build started in 2003 and continued until 2012. It was then reignited in 2020 after a donation was made by longtime Music Row veteran Ree Guyer, which established a fund to carry on the MRB work with a goal of raising $500,000. Through multiple functions held by Gattis, the fund now consists of over $200,000.

For more information, contact Sherry Stinson at sstinson@habitatnashville.org.

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