Archive for April, 2011
Fig and Eagle
I’ve got a headache. It all started with a conversation through the threadbare screen door of an abandoned house. A week ago myself and Clarence scampered over a chain-link fence, trail blazed through an overgrown side yard, pushed open a crumbling back door falling off the hinges, danced across rotted floorboards and illuminated the well-established [...]
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
The Obama administration has made ending homelessness in our country a priority. For the first time in the history of this country, we have a federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. This strategic plan calls for the end of veteran homelessness in the next five years and an end to all homelessness in [...]
Homelessness in New Orleans: An Update
In 2010, the UNITY collaborative of 63 organizations provided housing and/or services to 21,585 homeless persons in New Orleans and Jeffreson Parish, more than double the number of clients served annually prior to Hurricane Katrina. To learn more about homelessness in New Orleans as well as the exciting and innovative strategies we are implementing to [...]
