Rajah Smart

Subhead: Nashville's 1937 redlining map still shapes who lives where and how they fare. Our new research brief asks whether that geometry has travelled 45 miles up I-24, and what it found is not what either city expects. Clarksville was never redlined. In 1937, when federal appraisers drew hazard grades across Nashville, Clarksville had 11,800 people, too few to rate. Ninety years later, it is the fastest-growing large city in Tennessee, and Nashville's labor market has reached into it: the...

Announcing the release of TNEFP's newest research brief from the Spatial Echo Laboratory.

A new peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the geography of educational opportunity. We are thrilled to announce that the Tennessee Equity-Focused Policy organization (TNEFP) is launching its inaugural academic journal — the Journal of Spatial Equity and Education (JSEE).