Mayor Ragsdale and Mayor Haslam asked our office to postpone our March 12, 2009 task force meeting. At that time, the Ten-Year Plan office stated its intent to reframe its conversation with a representative group of permanent supportive housing stakeholders (PSH residents, developers, operators, supportive service providers, neighborhood leaders, and members of the City and County legislative bodies). We said that we’d seek approval from the City and the County Law Directors for this reframing, and we’ve done that.
Therefore, the Office of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness would like to invite each of you to a meeting on Monday evening, March 30, 2009, from 6:00-8:00pm at Cherokee Health Systems. We will not discuss siting considerations for permanent supportive housing.
Instead, we invite stakeholders to engage in a conversation that addresses two questions:
- What does each permanent supportive housing development need to do in order to be a good neighbor in the specific community in which it is located?
- What do permanent supportive housing developments need from the neighborhoods where they operate in order to best be incorporated into the neighborhood system?
This meeting is open to the public, and has been announced accordingly.
Meeting date and time: Monday evening, March 30, 2009, from 6:00-8:00pm
Meeting location: Cherokee Health Systems, 2018 Western Avenue Knoxville, TN 37921
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Robert Finley
215-3071