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Tag Archives: Housing First

Think you don’t have any homeless people living near you?

July 28, 2009 – 2:26 pm

Think again.
A camp in the Cedar Bluff area, about a dozen miles away from our so-called “mission district,” that was used by people who are homeless has apparently been destroyed. WVLT covers the story here.
This story discredits the myth that homelessness is not an issue that directly effects Knoxville’s and Knox County’s suburbs. There are [...]

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Q: “Who’s paying for all these ambulance rides?”

July 24, 2009 – 9:45 am

A: “We all are.”
Check out WATE’s story on the cost of emergency medical transportation, and its heavy utilization by people who are homeless. Since April of this year, as of air time for this story, ambulances responded to 523 emergency calls from the 400 block of Broadway, where many people who are homeless seek shelter, [...]

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Number of residents in permanent supportive housing

June 3, 2009 – 4:06 pm

The number of people moved off of the streets and placed in permanent supportive housing will always be one of the most important measurements of the success of our Ten-Year Plan. Retention in housing will be an even more significant measurement of success as time goes by.
This is the first report we’ve posted about the [...]

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“First, we help the individual into housing,…”

January 5, 2009 – 12:01 pm

This Sunday’s News-Sentinel contained an excellent opinion piece by Ginny Weatherstone, CEO of Volunteer Ministry Center.
Ms. Weatherstone states three “strong opinions” in this piece, which pretty well sums up the the core of the Ten-Year Plan’s message about homelessness, and we couldn’t say it any better. Click here to read it.

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Housing First in Vegas

April 30, 2008 – 2:09 pm

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 [...]

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Mayor seeks State investment

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, [...]

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WBIR highlights TYP success

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 [...]

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Housing First happening in Knox

December 26, 2007 – 11:24 am

Housing First is the cornerstone of our Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
Americans have offered help of many kinds to homeless people. One kind of help we’ve offered in most places is the opportunity to gain access to some sort of housing. Usually, that access was conditioned on the homeless person jumping through various kinds [...]

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