City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
Knox County
Tim Burchett, Mayor

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About funds specific to this project

December 3, 2008 – 8:42 pm

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 [...]

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Why not do more PSH cheaper elsewhere?

December 3, 2008 – 8:21 pm

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 [...]

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