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 [...]
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 [...]