The Sentinel’s J.J. Stambaugh brings you this story today.
When it opens its doors, Minvilla Manor will house up to 57 people who had been chronically homeless. Minvilla’s residents will be people who have chosen to seek help to get off the streets. Permanently. If you’d like to know more about them, and why permanent supportive [...]
The Knoxville Knox County Ten Year Plan Office is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the provision of case management services for residents of four housing facilities operated by Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC).
Isabella Towers, Cagle Terrace, Guy B. Love Towers and Northgate Terrace have been identified as residential facilities which would benefit significantly [...]
Here’s an important update on this project, posted July 6, 2008.
Last night the TYP was the main event at a meeting in Vestal. Joe Hultquist, City Councilman for the First District, hosted the meeting, which was almost entirely concerned with the TYP’s proposed plan to renovate the old Flenniken School to make it available for [...]
Las Vegas adopted in March 2006 a ten-year plan to reduce homelessness. Their plan, like ours, uses Housing First as one strategy. And it looks like it’s working.
The Las Vegas Sun’s Timothy Pratt writes:
Now in its fifth month, Horizon Crest on Owens Avenue is an unusual blend of 66 low-rent apartments for the poor and [...]
Michael Haynes’s The One Year Plan to End Panhandling is in this week’s MetroPulse.
Haynes acknowledges that panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily the same. That’s true. He also concludes that if you give money to panhandlers, then you’re keeping the institution of panhandling happy and growing. Which is not something anybody but panhandlers wants [...]
We know that permanent supportive housing makes economic sense. It’s less expensive to provide a home, with support services, to a homeless person than it is to support that same person on the street. We also know it’s more humane than just making homelessness more comfortable. Check out our FAQ to learn more about why [...]
MetroPulse reported on February 14, 2008, that the Mayors’ Office of the Ten-Year Plan was pursuing acquisition of the Parkway Hotel on Chapman Highway for development of 48 efficiency apartment units. Those apartments would have been used for permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals. A nonprofit corporation was to have been the [...]
February 18, 2008 – 9:55 am
Knoxville’s Homeless Service Provider Roundtable is made up of our three largest homeless service providers: Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM), Salvation Army (SA), and Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC).
The Ten-Year Plan office gets together with this group on a regular basis to continue to develop a better understanding of who is doing what in support of [...]
February 13, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Mayor Bill Haslam, along with the mayors of Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis, has asked Governor Bredesen to consider offering some funding from the State to help in addressing the issue of chronic homelessness. You can read Tom Humphrey’s story in the News Sentinel right after you click this link.
As Mayor Haslam mentions in the article, [...]
January 25, 2008 – 5:03 pm
Click here for a PDF of our Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness