Like other cities in the 100,000 Homes Campaign, the New Orleans team makes a point to: 1) know, by name, every single homeless person and his/her needs; 2) to give housing priority to the most sick; 3) to move people quickly into stable housing...
"The number of people who are suffering in homelessness on a single night has been brought below what it was before Hurricane Katrina." Click "View Post" to read more of this The Lens op-ed by UNITY executive director Martha Kegel....
Jaquetta White from The New Orleans Advocate covered UNITY's 2014 Point in Time count announcement, conducted in partnership with the City of New Orleans, as noted on the mayor's press-release feed, here. White wrote in her Friday, May 2nd Advocate piece about a few UNITY...
Over a few months' time, Times-Picayune reporter Richard Webster and photographer Ted Jackson followed two recently housed, chronically homeless UNITY clients: Philip "Doctor Love" Turner and Manuel "K9" Justin (pictured). In this comprehensive article and video, the journalists conclude that collaboratives like UNITY have begun...
That night we saw someone new, a young lady sitting on a filthy mattress, brushing a mangled wig while rats ran around her feet. A new blog from the streets of New Orleans, by UNITY outreach worker Laniker Hunter-Davis, pictured with her longtime outreach partner,...
Cities are moving away from long-term shelter and focusing, instead, on developing better ways to identify and prioritize vulnerable individuals and families, prevent crises, and rapidly re-house people, using short- or long-term assistance as needed....
The unprecedented "500 Homes for the Holidays" campaign partners found new ways to work together to house a stunning number of chronically homeless and vulnerable people in 7 months' time....
I couldn't tell you the first time I ever met the Mayor of the Square. I was probably standing in the shade from the Cabildo in Jackson Square, listening to the square's ad hoc brass band along with wandering tourists and locals passing through the...
Cuts to domestic-violence programs and economic hardship are causing more families to seek help in the city's homeless shelters or to sleep in their cars or on the streets of New Orleans. Recently housed mother Trolean Tolliver was featured in a recent New Orleans Advocate...
The UNITY we are today is able to house more chronically homeless people like Manuel Justin. After Hurricane Katrina, UNITY reinvented itself to respond to an explosion of homelessness. This summer, a New Orleans partnership led by UNITY further finetuned the way our teams approach...