City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
Knox County
Mike Ragsdale, Mayor

Tag Archives: permanent housing

Ten-Year Plan Shelves Parkway plans

March 6, 2008 – 10:04 am

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 [...]

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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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