City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
Knox County
Mike Ragsdale, Mayor

Recent Posts

Progress: a quick site visit

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 openings have [...]

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 [...]

Minvilla fully funded

City Council has approved the contracts governing allocations of funding for Minvilla Manor. This means that the funding is secured for this complicated and difficult project. The News-Sentinel’s Hayes Hickman has been covering the Minvilla saga and reports here. This is cross posted at the TYP website.

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