Franklin is meant for the rich, white people.” People walk by shops and restaurants in Franklin, Tennessee, on May 2, 2020. “It’s just a longstanding, unspoken thing. “They don’t want us in that neighborhood,” Kennetha said. The population of Franklin is only 6.6 percent Black, even though the city of Nashville is nearly 28 percent Black. In parts of Franklin, a child who grows up in a low-income family would go on to have a household income of $53,000 a year.īut that feels impossible.
She would prefer to live in a suburb like Franklin. Her address puts her in the Haynes area, where researchers say the expected household earnings for a low-income child is just $20,000 a year. Kennetha tells me she grew up near Bordeaux, in the northwest part of Nashville, Tennessee. “It feels like we’re an expendable family - hopeless and voiceless,” she told me. Being without a stable home doesn’t help. Digging herself out of a financial hole has felt like a full-time job. At 37, Kennetha is haunted by an unfinished bachelor’s degree that has left her nothing but debt.
They’ve been threatened with truancy for keeping their cameras off during remote learning - a grace they hoped would spare themselves some privacy over their living situation. She and her husband have five kids, the youngest of whom is just 8. This is the fourth time Kennetha has been homeless.
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