CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) — The Clarksville Housing Authority recently reported progress on work‑order backlogs, upcoming evictions, and a proposed partnership to build tiny homes for veterans. They also discussed a lapse in paperwork that has endangered some grant funding.

Executive Director Wanda Allen told commissioners at the June 17 meeting that the agency is working through 476 open work orders, though the number remains inflated as staff conduct month-by-month quality checks to verify whether repairs were completed and residents are satisfied.

Allen said CHA is trying to shift to a fully digital work-order system, a change that requires additional staff training but is expected to improve accuracy and efficiency. “Hopefully by next month, you’ll see a vast improvement,” she said.

2 evictions expected after violent incident

The agency reported 19 recertifications, 14 interim recertifications, four move-ins and five move-outs for the month. Three households ended participation in public housing entirely.

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Allen also said CHA will have to carry out two emergency family evictions following what she described as a big fight at a unit near Greenwood Avenue. “Violence is zero tolerance,” she told the board. “There was no way we could move them apart or anything like that.”

Allen said the two families facing eviction may reapply for public housing after a three-year wait.

Tiny homes for veterans partnership

CHA heard from Allen about a possible multi-agency partnership to build 18 to 24 tiny homes for veterans on Housing Authority-owned land behind a building at 721 Richardson St. Montgomery County, the City of Clarksville, the Clarksville‑Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) and state officials would be participating.

CHA would contribute land through a Section 18 disposition and assume management once the units are complete.

The homes would be paid for with HUD-VASH, a federal program between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and VA that combines HUD’s housing vouchers with VA supportive services to help veterans. Additional voucher options would be explored if the project expands beyond veteran households.

Allen noted that the plan being explored is still in its infancy.

ROSS grant non-compliance puts funding in jeopardy

CHA is appealing to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development after learning the agency was deemed non‑compliant with its Resident Opportunities and Self‑Sufficiency (ROSS) grant due to two missing annual reports under the previous administration.

HUD provides ROSS grants as three-year awards ranging from $272,000 to over $800,000 in total funding. Allen later told Clarksville Now that CHA was awarded $209,000 from the ROSS grant overall. This funding was utilized to pay for a social worker, Tiffany McAdory, who specialized in housing that Allen referenced as essential to the board.

“Tiffany is our ROSS coordinator,” said Allen “Tiffany is a social worker by profession, and she does an amazing job with providing ROSS services and resources to, not just our residents in CHA, but outside residents.”

Since the ROSS funding is ending soon, Allen said the board would have to make some adjustments to their budget to keep McAdory. “To lose her would be detrimental to our program,” Allen said.

Allen said staff are combing through old emails to document that an extension was requested, though she acknowledged the appeal may not succeed.

Allen is hoping the appeal goes through. If it does not, she plans to reapply for the grant once it opens again in September.

Corrections: Two families are being evicted, the ROSS grant was $209,000, and the tiny homes plan is still a preliminary proposal. The article has been updated.

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