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Q&A with Ingrid McIntyre
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Longtime Nashville pastor talks Christian advocacy
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Q&A with Quatrece McKinney
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Quatrece McKinney is well known in the nonprofit sector for her engagement in the community.
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Learn More About Nashville’s Unified Housing Strategy
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Metro released a comprehensive Unified Housing Strategy (UHS) earlier this year, which outlines seven strategies, 43 action steps, and an accompanying implementation plan.
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Learn More About our Recent Interviews with National Experts
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In early June, we conducted conversations with Rosanne Haggerty, the CEO of Community Solutions, and Dr. Sam Tsemberis, the founder of the Housing First approach. You can read the interview with Haggerty on page 4 and the one with Tsemberis was printed in our last issue.The questions we asked were developed by several members of the Vendor Leadership Team. Shawn Lesley served as their representative and conducted the in-person interviews with assistance from Judy. After talking to both experts, we felt extremely energized. Since then several members of the Vendor Leadership Team asked us about our impressions, and we decided to share those with all our readers.
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Q&A with Rosanne Haggerty
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Rosanne Haggerty is the President and CEO of Community Solutions.
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Learn More About Foster Care and Homelessness
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The fact is that homelessness will not end if we continue to inflict the trauma that led to their foster care placement to begin with.
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Q&A with Martesha Johnson Moore
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The head of Nashville’s Public Defender’s Office, Martesha Johnson Moore, discusses development and expansion.
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Q&A with Mark Dunkerley
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After a 15-year stint at the Oasis Center, Mark Dunkerley will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer on June 30.
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Learn More About Peer Cities’ Efforts to End Homelessness
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Which cities are doing well when it comes to reducing homelessness?
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Learn More About the Politicization of Encampment Closures
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Against the outcry of neighborhoods and businesses, cities like Nashville have been desperate to find quick and highly publicized solutions to shut down encampments and reduce homelessness. This allows politicians to look like they are doing something — or at least that has been their theory. By now, we know that focusing solely on large encampment closures at the cost of actually building an effective system that helps people access permanent housing within 90 to 120 days is not working. Let me state that Nashville is not the only city jumping on the bandwagon of politicizing the closure of large encampments. The goal is apparent.