April 13, 2026, 7-8:30 pm
Knoxville Civic Auditorium
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Vision: “A just, compassionate, and thriving community for all.”
Mission: “To organize diverse people to build and use their people power to solve community problems.”
We engage in listening, research, direct action and follow up to solve problems at their roots. We take on problems like the affordable housing crisis, needs in our mental health care system, problems facing our schools, inadequate public transportation and community gun violence.
Every spring Justice Knox organizes the largest public meeting in the community. The goal of this assembly is to get public officials to commit to concrete actions to solve some of the worst problems plaguing Knox County. On April 8, 2025, 1566 Justice Knox leaders gathered at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium with Mayor Jacobs and Mayor Kincannon, as well as the Director of the Office of Housing Stability and several members of city council and county commission. That night we secured commitments from both Mayors to provide at least $300,000 for eviction prevention services in the coming year and to work with us and other leaders to make a long-term plan for continued eviction prevention in our community. Mayor Jacobs also made commitments to develop housing for veterans moving out of homelessness with an ultimate goal of getting to functional zero. Mayor Kincannon committed to further discussion with Justice Knox leaders and micro-transit experts to explore possibilities for bringing this needed service, that can fill transportation gaps for our neighbors, to Knoxville. In 2026, we'll pack the auditorium with at least 2026 people to bring more justice to our community. Join us!!!
On April 9, we packed the Civic Auditorium with for justice! With that powerful Assembly gathered, we secured important commitments from Mayor Kincannon, Mayor Jacobs
What a turnout! Justice Knox leaders filled the main room and the overflow room of the school board meeting in February and again in March
Justice Knox worked with both Mayors, their staff, and Erin Read, the director of the new joint office of housing stability to bring more than