September 3, 2008 – 1:14 pm
We welcome Jessica Bocángel to her new position as the Faith-Based Mentoring Program Coordinator for the Compassion Coalition. The City of Knoxville published this press release yesterday, and the Sentinel covered her story today.
The Ten-Year Plan is beginning its third year in Knoxville and Knox County. Knoxville’s faith community has been serving people who are [...]
August 29, 2008 – 7:52 am
People here sometimes ask the question, “Are there examples of other cities who are using Ten-Year Plans to address homelessness? Others that are doing permanent supportive housing?”
The answer is “Yes,” and here’s a good example.
Norfolk VA is a city not far from Knoxville. Like Knoxville, Norfolk has a Ten-Year Plan. It’s working.
According to a release [...]
August 18, 2008 – 2:58 pm
The former Fifth Avenue Motel is probably Knoxville’s most notorious flophouse. Volunteer Ministry Center now owns that property, and is moving towards rehabilitating the historic structure into Minvilla Manor, an apartment building with 57 units of permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless.
Minvilla Manor is not without controversy. It’s expensive, largely because it’s [...]
August 11, 2008 – 9:23 am
Fort Worth’s Star-Telegram ran this editorial yesterday. It’s written by Philip Mangano, the Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. It’s encouraging.
The national figures demonstrate that the number of homeless people experiencing chronic homelessness — our most vulnerable and disabled neighbors — dropped from nearly 176,000 in 2005 to fewer than 124,000 [...]
Many people who are chronically homeless are mentally ill. They also have frequent interactions with the law enforcement system. They get arrested a lot, and many of them tend to spend a lot of time in jail.
““Probably about $400,000 a year is what we spend just on psychotropic drugs to treat the mentally ill. I’ll [...]
Thanks to Katie Granju at KnoxvilleTalks for this post. It is possible that this dialog might turn out to be helpful, too, although…well. We’ll see.
The old 5th Avenue Motel on the corner of 5th & Broadway has been a rough spot for a long time. You can find all kinds of stuff about it in [...]
This story over at the Sentinel is still getting comments today, which seems a little unusual. If you’d like to see the following ones in context, the whole stack is just a click away.
This project at Flenniken was to have been permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless, one small part of addressing [...]
The Ten-Year Plan is working with a nonprofit developer, Southeastern Housing Foundation, to develop permanent supportive housing at the old Flenniken Elementary School.
Southeastern has just learned that their 2008 initial application for 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits did not score high enough to secure a reservation of tax credits to turn the old Flenniken Elementary [...]
Over at the KNS today, David Moon wonders about Knox County’s funding relationship with the Ten-Year Plan.
Meanwhile, dragonboaters have raised $77,000 for KARM. You can read about that here.
Hmmm. Maybe the TYP needs its own fundraiser. Perhaps an MSA-wide scavenger hunt…
When we say things like “Most of the homeless people in Knoxville are from around here,” or “Over a quarter of the homeless folks we’ve talked with here say they came here to look for a job,” people sometimes want to know where we get those ideas.
Dr. Roger Nooe is the leading expert on [...]