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Before he was hired as the executive director of the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition last August, Mike Smith was engaged in a romantic relationship with his predecessor and then-boss Wendy Winters, according to hundreds of text messages recently sent to the agency s board and the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
A local nonprofit will continue to operate a sanctioned homeless camp for another six months as Chattanooga officials look to move the 33 residents to permanent housing before ultimately closing the site.
The Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition kicked off its weeklong point-in-time count this week with hopes of seeing the homeless population stabilize. Hamilton County saw an 81 percent increase in homelessness between 2020 and 2021.