Federal funding cuts proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could cause about 2,300 Tennessee households to lose housing support. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Kipp is a former chef who found himself in a Nashville shelter for homeless men after health issues made it impossible for him to continue to work and pay his rent. He was eventually hospitalized and nearly died before slowly climbing his way out of homelessness with the help of service providers who linked him with a housing choice voucher.
I met Kipp while I was following several peoples’ journeys from homelessness to housing for a monthly radio show/podcast I co-produce for Nashville Public Radio calledIn My Place, which shows that most people we see on our streets are unable to access housing on their own…