This story over at the Sentinel is still getting comments today, which seems a little unusual. If you’d like to see the following ones in context, the whole stack is just a click away. This project at Flenniken was to have been permanent supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless, one small part of [...]
Over at the KNS today, David Moon wonders about Knox County’s funding relationship with the Ten-Year Plan. Meanwhile, dragonboaters have raised $77,000 for KARM. You can read about that here. Hmmm. Maybe the TYP needs its own fundraiser. Perhaps an MSA-wide scavenger hunt…
Michael Haynes’s The One Year Plan to End Panhandling is in this week’s MetroPulse. Haynes acknowledges that panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily the same. That’s true. He also concludes that if you give money to panhandlers, then you’re keeping the institution of panhandling happy and growing. Which is not something anybody but panhandlers [...]
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 developer. The [...]
February 13, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Mayor Bill Haslam, along with the mayors of Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis, has asked Governor Bredesen to consider offering some funding from the State to help in addressing the issue of chronic homelessness. You can read Tom Humphrey’s story in the News Sentinel right after you click this link. As Mayor Haslam mentions in the [...]
January 9, 2008 – 3:12 pm
WBIR’s excellent story about Gary Waddell raised a question from a commenter at the WBIR site. I think the commenter wants to know how we know about the costs associated with chronic homelessness. Good question. It’s very hard to nail down an airtight answer. This year, Dr. Roger Nooe will be refining the data below. [...]
January 9, 2008 – 1:22 am
“I’ve got a roof over my head and that means a great deal…I don’t get locked up. I don’t get arrested like I used to. I used to get arrested quite a bit for public intoxication…I don’t have the desire that I did have to go out and constantly drink to get inebriated so I [...]
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 [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:15 am
This week’s edition of MetroPulse contains an excellent interview with Mayor Bill Haslam. The Mayor mentions Knoxville & Knox County’s Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in a couple of places in the interview, and we think that’s fantastic. Without strong support from its executive, no city’s Ten-Year Plan will be successful. Obviously, our Ten-Year [...]
December 4, 2007 – 1:16 pm
CityView Magazine’s December 2007 edition contains a nice article about Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). The article also contains an inadvertent error, and we feel like we should address it. Although the article, titled “Burt Rosen leads the day-to-day fight to end homelessness in Knoxville,” draws welcome attention to the issue of homelessness, and does [...]