January 26, 2011 – 1:16 pm
Tonight’s Ten-Year Plan Public Conversation meeting is canceled due to inclement weather. This meeting had been scheduled for 6pm tonight at Volunteer Ministry Center’s Resource Center. It will be rescheduled for a later date.
January 20, 2011 – 2:55 pm
Eight Knoxville-area agencies will receive funding to continue their work to end homelessness in our community. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the funding through the department’s Continuum of Care program. The agencies received a combined $1,240,464 in funding to continue the operation of existing housing and service programs. The multi-agency [...]
January 18, 2011 – 1:12 pm
Please note that tonight’s Ten-Year Plan Public Conversation meeting is canceled due to the threat of inclement weather. This meeting had been scheduled for 6pm tonight at Volunteer Ministry Center’s Resource Center. It will be rescheduled for a later date. What: Ten-Year Plan public conversation: Permanent Supportive Housing Residents – Three Stories When: Wednesday, January [...]
November 18, 2010 – 3:34 pm
Overview The TYP held its seventh Public Conversation at 6pm on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at New Harvest Park. The topic was “KCDC, Affordable Housing, and the Homeless.” Mary Thom Adams acted as moderator. Deborah Taylor, KCDC’s Section 8 Director, delivered a presentation about KCDC and the Section 8 program. Alvin Nance, Executive Director of [...]
November 4, 2010 – 4:30 pm
What: TYP Public Conversation: KCDC, affordable housing & homelessness When: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 6:00pm Where: New Harvest Park Contact: Robert Finley, 215-3071 The Office of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness would like to invite the public to a conversation at the New Harvest Park community building from 6pm until 7pm on [...]
October 29, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Minvilla Manor, Volunteer Ministry Center’s long-awaited 57-unit permanent supportive housing development at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, is now open. WBIR has this story. “The condition of where the building was to where it is today is symbolic of where the plan ends,” said 10 Year Plan Director Jon Lawler. “We started in [...]
October 25, 2010 – 8:36 am
The TYP received a lot of attention in the press between Friday and Sunday last week. On Friday, Pam Strickland’s op-ed column addressed the issue of excluding possession and consumption of alcohol from permanent supportive housing facilities. The KNS editorial board addressed the same issue in its Sunday editorial. This issue surfaced in a Knox [...]
October 11, 2010 – 9:32 am
Bill Lyons and Larry Martin wrote an excellent op-ed that was published in the Sentinel on Saturday. Permanent supportive housing remains the most effective strategy in combating homelessness, and communities around the country have found ways to locate housing developments in scattered neighborhoods. These developments have a record of success for both the residents and [...]
October 4, 2010 – 11:32 am
[Note: This was originally distributed to City Council, County Commission, and the TYP Advisory Board as a stand-alone weekly update.] Knoxville City Council invited the Ten-Year Plan to a workshop last Thursday evening to discuss the TYP’s communications plan and to hear from Brad Greene, the systems engineering consultant who is helping to refine the [...]