City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
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Mike Ragsdale, Mayor

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Housing First happening in Knox

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 kinds [...]

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Mayor promotes Ten-Year Plan

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 Plan [...]

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CityView Magazine: December edition correction.

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 [...]

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