Mayors’ Office of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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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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