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Ending chronic homelessness
Knoxville and Knox County are in year two of our ten-year plan to end chronic homelessness. This plan recognizes the need to do things differently, and to coordinate local, state, and federal resources to address chronic homelessness, which is the most challenging kind, in a way that is both more cost effective and also more humane. Homelessness [...]
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Housing First in Vegas
Las Vegas adopted in March 2006 a ten-year plan to reduce homelessness. Their plan, like ours, uses Housing First as one strategy. And it looks like it’s working. The Las Vegas Sun’s Timoth Pratt writes: Now in its fifth month, Horizon Crest on Owens Avenue is an unusual blend of 66 low-rent apartments for the poor and [...]
Panhandling MetroPulse
Michael Haynes’s The One Year Plan to End Panhandling is in this week’s MetroPulse. Haynes acknowledges that panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily the same. That’s true. He also concludes that if you give money to panhandlers, then you’re keeping the institution of panhandling happy and growing. Which is not something anybody but panhandlers wants [...]
Housing for the homeless: positive effect on property values?
We know that permanent supportive housing makes economic sense. It’s less expensive to provide a home, with support services, to a homeless person than it is to support that same person on the street. We also know it’s more humane than just making homelessness more comfortable. Check out our FAQ to learn more about why [...]
