WPLN: Tammy is still in a motel
Photo by Tasha A.F. Lemley
Tammy reflects outside of the Inglewood home she raised her family in for 28 years. Today, homeless, she's been in a transitional motel for more than a year as she attempts to secure permanent housing.
After her husband died, and his job denied his health insurance, she couldn’t afford payments on her own. So in 2014, she sold it for $175 thousand. Five years later it sold again for $360,000. “Oh my goodness! That makes me sick!” she says, “but you know, my husband did all the drywall in it, the ceilings. Everything is mint…perfect.”
We hear from Tammy as she’s losing hope for ever having a home of her own again. “I’m lost, and I don’t know where to look,” she says, “never been by myself a day in my life till now.”
I interviewed and produced this followup piece which was part of this full, live, episode of This Is Nashville which won a second place News/Public Affairs Program Public Media Journalists Association award.