City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
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Mike Ragsdale, Mayor

Tag Archives: PSH task force

Permanent supportive housing: the conversation begins

March 31, 2009 – 1:51 pm

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 [...]

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Site Consideration Task Force postponed

March 10, 2009 – 5:48 pm

The Site Consideration Task Force has been postponed by the Mayors of Knoxville and Knox County pending further exploration of its role.
The following joint press release was issued today by the City of Knoxville and Knox County. A statement by the Ten-Year Plan follows.
Mayors Haslam and Ragsdale and Ten Year Plan Director Jon Lawler very [...]

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Site Consideration Task Force: first meeting

February 23, 2009 – 10:09 am

The Site Consideration Task Force will meet for the first time on March 12, 2009, from 7:30am to 1pm at the United Way of Greater Knoxville. This meeting is open to the public. The majority of the time will be used for education and to focus the group on its purpose.
Workgroups will form at this [...]

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Joint Council/Commission and PSH siting task force

December 19, 2008 – 2:08 pm

The TYP is committed to a scattered-site approach to developing housing to end chronic homelessness. In order to reach its goal of creating 400 units of permanent supportive housing, the TYP will need to encourage construction and/or rehabilitation of perhaps a dozen or more apartment complexes scattered across the city and county.
Last week the Ten-Year [...]

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Joint Council/Commission workshop tonight: 5pm City/County Building

December 11, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Last night’s public meeting about the Ten-Year Plan and permanent supportive housing was very well-attended (we’ll post some follow-up to the meeting here by the end of the day tomorrow). We hope the same will be true for tonight’s joint City Council/County Commission workshop which is open to the public.
One goal of this workshop is [...]

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