October 29, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Minvilla Manor, Volunteer Ministry Center’s long-awaited 57-unit permanent supportive housing development at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, is now open. WBIR has this story. “The condition of where the building was to where it is today is symbolic of where the plan ends,” said 10 Year Plan Director Jon Lawler. “We started in [...]
October 25, 2010 – 8:36 am
The TYP received a lot of attention in the press between Friday and Sunday last week. On Friday, Pam Strickland’s op-ed column addressed the issue of excluding possession and consumption of alcohol from permanent supportive housing facilities. The KNS editorial board addressed the same issue in its Sunday editorial. This issue surfaced in a Knox [...]
October 11, 2010 – 9:32 am
Bill Lyons and Larry Martin wrote an excellent op-ed that was published in the Sentinel on Saturday. Permanent supportive housing remains the most effective strategy in combating homelessness, and communities around the country have found ways to locate housing developments in scattered neighborhoods. These developments have a record of success for both the residents and [...]
August 23, 2010 – 4:10 pm
The August 12 cover story in MetroPulse was, as we’ve mentioned elsewhere, quite good. It did contain some information that elicited a correction from Stacia West, Research Associate with Knox HMIS (Homeless Management Information System). Ms. West’s letter to the editor was published in the subsequent edition of MetroPulse. Here’s the conclusion: Data from KnoxHMIS [...]
August 16, 2010 – 10:45 am
Chris Buice, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church minister, wrote a supportive opinion piece published in the News Sentinel this weekend. The difficulty of addressing homelessness is that it is not one problem. It is many problems. The primary cause may be a house fire or a bad economy or a mental health diagnosis or an [...]
August 12, 2010 – 11:26 am
The cover story in today’s edition of MetroPulse is about the Ten-Year Plan. Frank N. Carlson wrote the story. It’s very well-crafted, thorough, and fair. We encourage you to take the time to read it and pass it on to others. Carlson’s piece focuses attention on some of the controversy surrounding the TYP, but it also [...]
August 11, 2010 – 12:22 pm
The Knoxville News Sentinel published an excellent editorial yesterday about the TYP. The city of Knoxville, Knox County, service providers, neighborhood activists and others developed the Ten Year Plan in 2005 to address the chronically homeless. Defined as those who have been homeless longer than a year or who have had a series of homelessness [...]
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 [...]
September 16, 2009 – 3:38 pm
Today’s Sentinel carries Brandon Lowe’s article about Circles of Support, the Compassion Coalition’s faith-based mentoring program for the previously chronically homeless. Lowe’s piece is focused on Marjorie Lopes, a woman who used to be chronically homeless and who now resides at Guy B. Love Towers, a KCDC property that houses several people who have left [...]
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 [...]