Background: The Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness
The Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (TYP) in Knoxville and Knox County is part of a national movement to end long-term or chronic homelessness. A person who is chronically homeless is, by HUD’s definition, a disabled individual who has been homeless for at least one year or [...]
WBIR’s Alison Morrow is doing a series on residents of permanent supportive housing (PSH).
The first story ran on Friday, and you can watch it here.
Click here to watch the second story.
The idea behind this series is to give viewers a window into PSH, which is such a critical part of our community’s strategy to end [...]
February 10, 2010 – 2:07 pm
I’ve put up a quick progress update at minvilla.org. Actually, two of them. One’s a very short video piece composed of captioned stills, and the other is a brief discussion. I plan to do this about every month. Please let me know what you think about this.
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 affordable housing [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]