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Community Built on Housing
The big dream is to create an app that centralizes all of the resources that are available at The Housing Hub. The specific activities of the Housing Hub are below.
To create a collective of housing related organizations that will be called The Housing Hub. Members commit to digitize (if necessary) and share their information through The Housing Hub website. This information includes on demand workshops, applications for assistance, and information about programs.
To create and launch a website as an on demand place to house all of this information and contact information for partner organizations.
To create a walk in center for housing counseling at the Littell Partin Center. The walk-in center will be a place where information and resources can be accessed.
To create and launch a podcast that focuses on housing related topics applicable to our region. This will be distributed through the Housing Hub and partner organizations websites and social media.
To create and launch a robust marketing campaign to let people know about the information and resources available at The Housing Hub.
The Housing Hub Partners
Mountain T.O.P.
Mountain T.O.P. is a partnership ministry with a goal to help meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people we encounter. To achieve this goal, we offer a variety of mission-based programs for youth and adults. Participants can choose to serve with Mountain T.O.P. through home repair projects or day camp programs.
green|Spaces
Working toward regional sustainability by progressing the way we live, work, and build in Chattanooga and the surrounding region.
Housing Sewanee Inc.
At Housing Sewanee Inc. we are a group of dedicated volunteers who work with community partners to build homes together. Partners help build their homes, creating sweat equity. HSI raises funds for building materials which helps with the building process. Join us with your gifts of talent and financial resources.
BetterFi
BetterFi is a non-profit 501(c)(3) economic justice enterprise and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).
We provide affordable installment loans and complementary financial programming like coaching as a pathway out of debt traps and toward financial fitness.
South Cumberland Learning and Development Center
The South Cumberland Learning and Development Center is a one-stop-shop Resource Center for families in the Grundy area. Services housed here include: Tracy City Mental Health, The American Job Center, Catholic Charities of Tennessee FRC
South Cumberland Community Fund (SCCF)
The vision of South Cumberland Community Fund is that the Plateau be a place of hope and prosperity for all its residents and communities, inspired by the Fund’s philanthropic and regional leadership.
The Housing Hub Podcast
Co-hosts Sophia and Julie talk all things housing starting with why the Housing Hub came to be and the Housing Hub partners. Find on us Apple Podcasts here.
What is the Housing Hub?
Under the focus area of community and economic development, a group of nonprofits with housing as a central or strategic focus desire to create The Housing Hub in an effort to improve access to affordable and healthy housing. This center will be the hub of housing related resources: funding, education, and advocacy. The South Cumberland region is a desirable place for people to prosper, but substandard housing is a major barrier for too many people. We believe that access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing is a necessity for our communities to grow and flourish.
Mountain T.O.P. is always starting the housing conversation, and it is our goal to become housing experts. In gathering the right organizations around the complex issue of housing, we desire to create robust, cross sector answers that address substandard housing in Grundy, Marion, and Franklin counties. We believe that one of these complex answers is accessibility of information and resources; and it is our hypothesis that if we create a centralized system to share housing affordability information and resources, then we think information could be more widely accessible and more people could move out of a substandard housing situation.
The Housing Hub would be designed, not just for people, but along with people who would access the resources. This means we would involve an advisory committee of folks served by our organizations all along the process of creation, implementation, and adaptation.