City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
Knox County
Tim Burchett, Mayor

Monthly Archives: July 2009

Think you don’t have any homeless people living near you?

Think again. A camp in the Cedar Bluff area, about a dozen miles away from our so-called “mission district,” that was used by people who are homeless has apparently been destroyed. WVLT covers the story here. This story discredits the myth that homelessness is not an issue that directly effects Knoxville’s and Knox County’s suburbs. [...]

Q: “Who’s paying for all these ambulance rides?”

A: “We all are.” Check out WATE’s story on the cost of emergency medical transportation, and its heavy utilization by people who are homeless. Since April of this year, as of air time for this story, ambulances responded to 523 emergency calls from the 400 block of Broadway, where many people who are homeless seek [...]