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
January 24, 2008 – 10:45 am
Below you’ll find links to two documents.
Instructions
The first document is a PDF file.
It’s a detailed set of instructions for completing the survey that’s linked below. Please read through them carefully before you go to work on the survey.
Survey
The second document is an Excel spreadsheet.
This is the survey itself. After you have familiarized yourself with the [...]
January 9, 2008 – 3:12 pm
WBIR’s excellent story about Gary Waddell raised a question from a commenter at the WBIR site. I think the commenter wants to know how we know about the costs associated with chronic homelessness.
Good question. It’s very hard to nail down an airtight answer. This year, Dr. Roger Nooe will be refining the data below. [...]
January 9, 2008 – 1:22 am
“I’ve got a roof over my head and that means a great deal…I don’t get locked up. I don’t get arrested like I used to. I used to get arrested quite a bit for public intoxication…I don’t have the desire that I did have to go out and constantly drink to get inebriated so I [...]