WBIR’s Alison Morrow is doing a series on residents of permanent supportive housing (PSH). The first story ran on Friday, and you can watch it here.
The idea behind this series is to give viewers a window into PSH, which is such a critical part of our community’s strategy to end chronic homelessness.
What keeps a person [...]
February 10, 2010 – 2:07 pm
I’ve put up a quick progress update at minvilla.org. Actually, two of them. One’s a very short video piece composed of captioned stills, and the other is a brief discussion. I plan to do this about every month. Please let me know what you think about this.
December 16, 2009 – 5:52 pm
This video was published at knoxnews.com back in March. It’s just as relevant today. It’s about one group of people who need permanent supportive housing and their impact on public safety.
November 30, 2009 – 11:34 am
The Ten-Year Plan Advisory Board meets quarterly. The TYP AB offers guidance and acts as a sounding board for the office of the TYP. At every meeting, the TYP staff present a progress report. Click here to review those reports and to learn more about the AB.
The TYP AB’s next meeting will take place on [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:40 pm
The below announcement is from Grant Rosenberg in Knox County’s Office of Neighborhoods and Community Development.
As has been discussed here and elsewhere, the Ten-Year Plan is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing permanent supportive housing options as part of our strategy to end homelessness in our community.
Southeastern Housing Foundation, a local nonprofit affordable housing [...]
October 8, 2009 – 10:34 am
Nashville has long been home to a place called Tent City, a large encampment that has long been home to a fairly large community of that city’s homeless people. The encampment has long been controversial, with some in the city calling for its immediate closure and others advocating for the encampment’s residents. Just over a [...]
September 16, 2009 – 3:38 pm
Today’s Sentinel carries Brandon Lowe’s article about Circles of Support, the Compassion Coalition’s faith-based mentoring program for the previously chronically homeless.
Lowe’s piece is focused on Marjorie Lopes, a woman who used to be chronically homeless and who now resides at Guy B. Love Towers, a KCDC property that houses several people who have left chronic [...]
September 8, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Minvilla Manor is under construction as of 10am today. When completed late next year, this development will add 57 new units of permanent supportive housing to our affordable housing stock in Knoxville. Click here to learn more…
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. There are [...]
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 shelter, [...]