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Tag Archives: Flenniken

Flenniken: use on review appealed

June 24, 2009 – 4:35 pm

Today, Southeastern Housing Foundation, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing in Knoxville, appealed the Metropolitan Planning Commission’s June 11 denial of use on review for Flenniken Housing, a proposed 48-unit permanent supportive housing development at the old Flenniken School in South Knoxville.
MPC staff had recommended approval of  the Flenniken Housing proposal because it conforms to [...]

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Public Meeting: February 5: Flenniken School

January 31, 2009 – 9:28 am

The Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness will hold a public meeting at the South Knoxville Community Center on Thursday, February 5.
The purpose of this meeting is to update neighborhood stakeholders on progress regarding a proposed permanent supportive housing project in support of the Ten-Year Plan. This proposed project involves renovation of the old Flenniken [...]

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Homeless Flenniken: Stayin’ alive…

July 10, 2008 – 1:10 pm

This story over at the Sentinel is still getting comments today, which seems a little unusual.  If you’d like to see the following ones in context, the whole stack is just a click away.
This project at Flenniken was to have been permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless, one small part of addressing [...]

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Flenniken: an update

July 7, 2008 – 3:09 pm

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 [...]

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Q & A: Flenniken Housing

May 20, 2008 – 12:17 pm

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 permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless. Jon [...]

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