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Minvilla Manor is an historic rehab of the former 5th Avenue Motel into 57 units of permanent supportive housing. Minvilla will be owned and operated by Volunteer Ministry Center (VMC), and supports the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (TYP). This website exists to help you understand Minvilla and how it fits into [...]
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Minvilla Update: Visual Version
This short piece goes with these previously-posted details. Enjoy and/or critique!
Progress: a quick site visit
[update: watch this!] Last Wednesday, VMC took board members and staff on a brief site visit to Minvilla Manor. Progress is especially evident from the inside. We didn’t get up into the third level of the structure floor, but we were able to check out the apartments at the first (basement) level and on the second level. New [...]
Minvilla breaks ground today
Minvilla Manor is under construction as of 10am today. When completed late next year, this development will add 57 new units of permanent supportive housing to our affordable housing stock in Knoxville. Minvilla is one of the most visible projects related to the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. As such, it has focused a lot [...]