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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 members of the City and County [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]