Residents of Millwood — including families, local business owners, and active community members — are being displaced, disregarded, and disbanded. Throughout the duration of Elmahaba Center’s survey of The Blue Note apartment complex, tenants have expressed their grief and frustration towards unsanitary housing conditions, poor management, unjust over-policing tactics, and…

Millwood is unofficially referred to as “the third most dangerous street corner in Nashville,” according to one Blue Note apartment resident. Lydia Yousief, the director of Elmahaba Center, claims that the biggest problem within Millwood is the “physical safety” of community members: about 45% of all surveyed tenants expressed serious…

The people of Milwood are subject to a startling number of tangible and intangible issues: cockroaches, mice, faulty appliances, low-quality living conditions, poor management, and a lack of community are all persistent in their day-to-day lives. And while these conditions continue at The Blue Note, rent is still hiking upwards…

“[Millwood] is not just a residential area, but also a cultural testimony,” says Lydia Yousief, the director of Elmahaba Center, an immigrants rights group based in South Nashville. Nestled between the Nashville International Airport and Trevecca University, Millwood is sprawling with intersectional identities. …