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Ending Homelessness Together.

New UNITY data, plus keynote by Irvin Mayfield

UNITY | March 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

At UNITY’s annual meeting — on Wed., March 27 — we will announce new data showing a decrease in homelessness over the past year. Join us! Wednesday, March 27 at 10 a.m. Holy Angels Concert Hall 3500 St. Claude Ave. The meeting will also feature: – a keynote speech about jazz and homelessness by [...]

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Out of Reach housing leads to homelessness

UNITY | March 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

It’s the most basic reason for New Orleans’ constant churn of homeless households: when people can’t earn enough to afford rent, they fall into homelessness. Check out the National Low-Income Housing Coalition’s new Out of Reach report: “The estimated average wage for a Louisiana renter is $12.57. So, to afford fair-market rent for a two-bedroom apartment [...]

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Keeping people warm, as temperature dips

UNITY | December 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

UNITY’s Laniker Hunter and Brandi Gaines-Girard hand out blankets and ferry homeless people to shelters, on a recent freeze night as reported on WWL TV by Monica Hernandez: Watch it here, as UNITY takes to the streets.

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A look back at 2012: decimating the “Tenacious Ten” list

UNITY | December 21, 2012 | 1 Comment

By Mike Miller, UNITY’s director of supportive-housing placement There is one simple vindication for all the daily frustrations of being an outreach worker — the disjointed, the systems of broken systems, the personal ravages of the street of those living on it. This last blog of the year pays homage to all the empty doorways, [...]

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“They need more resources”

UNITY | November 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

“Unity, Covenant House and other nonprofit agencies are doing what they can: providing shelter, getting as many people as possible into permanent housing, checking on isolated homeless people spread across the city. But they need more resources,” says a Times-Picayune opinion piece focused on the recent Covenant House sleepover. Read it here. Mark Romig with [...]

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