CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Over the next five years, Clarksville will need to add 15,000 more homes, in both rentals and single-family houses, and at a variety of affordability levels. About 7,600 housing units will be needed just to “tread water.”
The Clarksville-Montgomery County Regional Planning Commission, alongside Clarksville Neighborhood and Community Services, commissioned the services of Bowen National Research to conduct a Housing Needs Assessment, and the results were released this week. The study recommends expanding affordable housing, improving housing quality, revising zoning codes for a more sustainable market, and coming together as a community.
Montgomery County growing 5,000-6,000 people per year
BNR President Patrick Bowen provided the results during an event on Tuesday at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center. RPC Director Jeffery Tyndall told the crowd what led to the research being conducted in the first place, which was the city and the county adopting their Comprehensive Plan.
“It has a list of strategies of things we can do in our community for the next 20 years. We tried to attack some of the low-hanging fruit right off the bat, with one of those things being introducing a Housing Needs Assessment,” Tyndall said. “There’s no denying that Clarksville the last five to six years has been at such an upward tick in development, more than we’ve seen at any point in our history. So, we had to get a better handle on what is the type of growth we’ve seen and where’s our community going…