Last Wednesday’s News-Sentinel published this article about City Council’s approval of Neighborhood Stabilization Fund (NSP) dollars for Minvilla. The article contained this: Jon Lawler, director of the city-county 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, said 80 percent of the public funds secured for Minvilla, including historic and low-income housing tax credits, are specific to that [...]
People sometimes ask us, “Why not take this money and spend it to purchase already-existing apartments and other properties and turn them into PSH developments? This would certainly be cheaper, and we could house more people faster this way. Why don’t we abandon Minvilla and do PSH somewhere else?” These are fair questions. Minvilla is [...]
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 [...]