The beautiful building is riddled with bullet holes.
The roof is so bad, it rains on the inside, said Michele Johnson, who couldn t be happier with her new home. It s exactly the right place, she said.
She s talking about a former liquor store on Lafayette Street in Nashville s Cameron-Trimble neighborhood, where, in this zip code, there is a 41.6 percent poverty rate, one of the highest in the state. It needs a lot of love, she said, about the building and the zip code.
Johnson is the co-founder of the Tennessee Justice Center which, for 25 years, has advocated for health care, nutrition and financial support for families living in poverty. TJC, which currently has 28 employees, has done it all in shabby confines.