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.
Minvilla is a marriage of historic preservation and affordable housing. Some people think that’s a bad marriage, because the cost is too high. Just last Monday, for example, several Knox County Commissioners raised the issue of per-unit cost, saying that ~$123,000 per unit is an outrageous amount of money to spend to rehabilitate a building [...]
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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.
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A public meeting will give neighborhood representatives and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and comment on critical aspects of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
The meeting will take place at on December 10, 2008 at 6pm in the small assembly room in the City/County Building.
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