Our Purposes for Being
The purposes of the East Tennessee Community Design Center are:
- To provide architectural, planning and related technical services to groups unable to obtain them otherwise.
- To develop community involvement in comprehensive community planning.
- To investigate new concepts in low-income housing.
- To help citizens evaluate concepts and programs related to renovating neighborhoods.
- To encourage and assist community economic development.
The Community Design Center organizes people, ideas and resources to facilitate positive change in economically distressed and isolated communities in the region. The sixteen Tennessee counties primarily served by the Community Design Center are: Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier and Union.