City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
Knox County
Tim Burchett, Mayor

Tag Archives: County Commission

Public Meeting: Permanent supportive housing in West Knox

November 4, 2009 – 5:40 pm

The below announcement is from Grant Rosenberg in Knox County’s Office of Neighborhoods and Community Development. As has been discussed here and elsewhere, the Ten-Year Plan is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing permanent supportive housing options as part of our strategy to end homelessness in our community. Southeastern Housing Foundation, a local nonprofit [...]

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Joint Council/Commission and PSH siting task force

December 19, 2008 – 2:08 pm

The TYP is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing housing to end chronic homelessness. In order to reach its goal of creating 400 units of permanent supportive housing, the TYP will need to encourage construction and/or rehabilitation of perhaps a dozen or more apartment complexes scattered across the city and county. Last week the [...]

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Joint Council/Commission workshop tonight: 5pm City/County Building

December 11, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Last night’s public meeting about the Ten-Year Plan and permanent supportive housing was very well-attended (we’ll post some follow-up to the meeting here by the end of the day tomorrow). We hope the same will be true for tonight’s joint City Council/County Commission workshop which is open to the public. One goal of this workshop [...]

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December 10: Public meeting

December 4, 2008 – 2:21 pm

A public meeting will give neighborhood representatives and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and comment on critical aspects of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. The meeting will take place at on December 10, 2008 at 6pm in the small assembly room in the City/County Building. According to TYP [...]

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