According to this plan, the Total amount spent in Chattanooga/Hamilton County in 2006 to provide all these services to the Homeless population of about 4000 individuals is on average, $ 1,831.00 per person, per year.

This figure does not include Case managment cost, if the individual is covered by Tenncare.

Chart 2: Spending on Homelessness in the Chattanooga Region
Type of Program Total Spending
Transitional Housing $1,827,000
Emergency Shelter 1,511,000
Primary Health Care & Clinical Services 1,122,000
Emergency Services 998,000
Permanent Housing & Supportive Services 995,800
Outreach & Case Management 295,000
Coordination, Planning & Advocacy 287,000
Re-housing Assistance 152,500
Employment Services 135,500
TOTAL $7,324,000

According to Dr. Nooe's 2006 Cost Study of the Homeless in Knoxville he looked at:

A local, one-year examination of twenty-five (25) homeless individuals in Knoxville, Tennessee, illuminates the cost of repeated cycling through jail, detox, hospitalization and homelessness.

The Total cost that Dr. Nooe stated in this study looking only at Jail, Emergency Room, Detox stays and transportation to these facilities was on average, $37,164.00 per year, in just these expenses.

How is it, that in Chattanooga, about 100 miles away in the same state, the cost to provide these services to a Homeless person is $1,831.00 per year and in Knoxville, according to Dr. Nooe,for only 3 of the above mentioned services, in the same calender year of 2006, the cost per person per year, averages $37,164.00?

I also want to point out the sources for the funding in Chattanooga.

Chart 3: Regional Funding Sources for Homeless Services
Funding Source Spending
Federal $2,905,000
State 481,000
County & City 691,500
Program Income 64,500
Philanthropy $3,182,000
Total $7,324,000

Does anyone else find this information curious?

How about this,

If the total population of Homeless persons in Chattanooga during 2006 was 4000. And according to the TYP, the Chronically Homeless are 15% of the Total, so in 2006, 600 of the Total in Chattanooga could be considered Chronically Homeless.

Again using Dr. Nooe's numbers, it would look something like this:
600 Chronically Homeless x $37,000 per year in cost = $22,000,000.00 Total spent during said year.

Yet in Chattanooga, they spent only $7.3 million during 2006 on the Total Homeless Population.

Are these services actually that much more expensive in Knoxville, or what?

Now I may not be nearly as learnid as you are, but something does not look right about that to me.

I believe I understand the reasons for expensive new construction - access to federal funding. If we had a local source of money - as Chattanooga and San Antonio did - that would permit more sensible and less-expensive use of existing housing stock.

Get a grip,

$ 7,324,000.00 divided by 4000 = $1,831.00, thats
One thousand, eight hundred and thirty one dollars.

Realy, thats all that ya'll can come up with?

rikki, the emergency services category from Chattanooga, includes all emergency services, Jail, transportation to and from etc....

Please read the document before you start disagreeing with the facts.

Also from the Chattanooga plan comes this bit of revelation.

Community-based Supportive Services:
Formerly homeless people with psychiatric disabilities can receive case management services from case managers funded through TennCare. These case managers provide effective support to hundreds of people with disabilities housed in the community. However, TennCare pays for only three visits per month per client, making it difficult to provide an adequate amount of support for formerly homeless people with intensive service needs. TennCare will pay a higher reimbursement rate if the individual with mental illness has been hospitalized for more than 30 days in the past year. This more intensive level of case management allows ten visits per month, and is focused on providing the support and stability necessary to reduce the individual’s heavy use of hospitalization and other publicly-funded services.

This is what the Knoxville Ten Year Plan is counting on to provide the Mental Health services to the residents of PSH.

A quick review of info from Chattanooga paints an interesting, if less than inspirational picture. It appears that Chattanooga got off to a bang with its original "blueprint," issued towards the end of Corker's last term as Mayor. That plan was largely abandoned after the election of Mayor Littlefield, in favor of developing a centralized complex of some sort at their old farmer's market. That was never implemented. Later the original blueprint received a review and update in 2007. After that, it would appear very little happened to implement that revised plan.

Perhaps this is Mr. Peabody's idea of of a homelessness plan, in that it doesn't seem to do much, but for the rest of us, it wouldn't appear to be the model to replicate.

Please review this thread for accuracy. All of my comments come from the plans, the other commentors here do not want to recognise the truth, or are choosing to mis-represent the facts, to help support the disaster that is the current Ten Year Plan in Knoxville.

1) 5+ years into the plan & not one unit of housing opened by the TYP as of today.

2) As the City Council now recognizes, Knox County has withdrawn support for the plan. Refer to the April City Council meetings.

3) Three Failed attempts to Target Neighborhoods for PSH development.

4) Loss of trust for the Management of the TYP, enough so, that Akermann had to be brought in to help repair the image.

5) A Ballot referrendum drive underway to stop the current plan and stop the Flenniken project.

6) Questions about ties between Lawler/Wood and the Knoxville Leadership Foundation continue to go unanswered by the TYP or the Mayor's administration.

7) The debacle of Minvilla, original estimated cost $3.4 million, final cost $ 7.3 million. Possible final cost per unit $ 130,000.

8) No accounting of the finances of the office of the Ten Year Plan.

If anyone that looks at this blog, thinks that these things are good, than you are right, the plan is doing great. If you don't like these facts, put a post here and say it, don't let a few bullies, keep you off this Site.

including HRM. They (HRM) are a direct provider under the TYP umbrella. I heard a number close to 300 of individuals who are now in PSH managed by various agencies. Most of these units must have been existing housing stock. I don't think the TYP staff are direct providers of services.

"The top priority is to coordinate our community’s resources so that our community maximizes its ability to help homeless people off the streets and into a permanent home. The TYP is built on the platform of Permanent Supportive Housing."

Seems like as good a thread as any to note: Someone made the observation to me:

Has anyone seen petition drives by the TYPOs?