Hosted by Richard Winham and Mal O’Connell, On The Outside In Chattanooga is a conversation with people living on the street in Chattanooga along with the army of professionals working to help them. Like the blind men and the elephant trying to grasp the enormity of the problem, Richard and Mal spent 18 months in understanding that it’s not one problem or one person, but a huge shifting population of people each with their own unique perspective. Realizing that helped them to tell the story one topic at a time.
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Hosted by Richard Winham and Mal O’Connell, On The Outside In Chattanooga is a conversation with people living on the street in Chattanooga along with the army of professionals working to help them. Like the blind men and the elephant trying to grasp the enormity of the problem, Richard and Mal spent 18 months in understanding that it’s not one problem or one person, but a huge shifting population of people each with their own unique perspective. Realizing that helped them to tell the story one topic at a time.
In this first half of a two-part episode in our continuing series On The Outside in Chattanooga, titled Housing First, we’re talking about a policy that everyone we spoke to helping the unsheltered told us was the only place to start. Before they can do anything to help the unsheltered person, they first have to find them a permanent place to live.
One of the reasons that is becoming ever more of a challenge is because Chattanooga is growing so quickly. In fact, Nashville is the only city in Tennessee growing faster than Chattanooga. The population of the metro area increased by more than 80,000 people between 2000 and 2020.
On The Outside In Chattanooga
Hosted by Richard Winham and Mal O’Connell, On The Outside In Chattanooga is a conversation with people living on the street in Chattanooga along with the army of professionals working to help them. Like the blind men and the elephant trying to grasp the enormity of the problem, Richard and Mal spent 18 months in understanding that it’s not one problem or one person, but a huge shifting population of people each with their own unique perspective. Realizing that helped them to tell the story one topic at a time.
