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 [...]
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 [...]
City Council has approved the contracts governing allocations of funding for Minvilla Manor. This means that the funding is secured for this complicated and difficult project.
The News-Sentinel’s Hayes Hickman has been covering the Minvilla saga and reports here.
If you want to know more about the project, you can visit our Minvilla website. This is cross [...]
Last night’s public meeting to discuss permanent supportive housing was a good start to what our office hopes will continue to be a productive conversation about how permanent supportive housing developments and residents, and neighborhoods in which they are located, can be good neighbors to each other.
Background
You may recall that, back in December 2008, the [...]
March 23, 2009 – 10:36 am
Mayor Ragsdale and Mayor Haslam asked our office to postpone our March 12, 2009 task force meeting. At that time, the Ten-Year Plan office stated its intent to reframe its conversation with a representative group of permanent supportive housing stakeholders (PSH residents, developers, operators, supportive service providers, neighborhood leaders, and [...]
Hayes Hickman and JJ Stambaugh, and the late Clay Owen, give you a long, deep look into the issue of homelessness, its costs, and its other implications. Here’s a roundup of the series.
Mental illness in jail
This piece cracks open the issue of mental illness among people who have run-ins with the law. The Knox County [...]
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 Director Jon [...]
August 29, 2008 – 7:52 am
People here sometimes ask the question, “Are there examples of other cities who are using Ten-Year Plans to address homelessness? Others that are doing permanent supportive housing?”
The answer is “Yes,” and here’s a good example.
Norfolk VA is a city not far from Knoxville. Like Knoxville, Norfolk has a Ten-Year Plan. It’s working.
According to a release [...]
August 18, 2008 – 2:58 pm
The former Fifth Avenue Motel is probably Knoxville’s most notorious flophouse. Volunteer Ministry Center now owns that property, and is moving towards rehabilitating the historic structure into Minvilla Manor, an apartment building with 57 units of permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless.
Minvilla Manor is not without controversy. It’s expensive, largely because it’s [...]
Many people who are chronically homeless are mentally ill. They also have frequent interactions with the law enforcement system. They get arrested a lot, and many of them tend to spend a lot of time in jail.
““Probably about $400,000 a year is what we spend just on psychotropic drugs to treat the mentally ill. I’ll [...]