But now, with support from UNITY, Mr. Dawson is housed and is learning to do things himself. This blog post is by Emily Leitzinger, a case manager at UNITY’s award-winning Rosa F. Keller Building, a UNITY-owned apartment community for the working poor and for disabled people rescued from homelessness. On...
Please consider donating basic household items so that formerly homeless people can start a new life. Click here for a list of needed items. Or click here to donate online to UNITY....
UNITY has released two Requests for Proposals to provide low-barrier temporary housing and participate in a coordinated assessment pilot project. All interested agencies are encouraged to apply. Follow the links for the full documents: Low-Barrier Temporary Housing RFP Coordinated Assessment Pilot Project RFP...
The Times-Picayune / Nola.com covered the winning pitch by Emily's Danielson (second from left) for the Greater New Orleans Foundation's "Pitch-It" innovation challenge. Read it here:...
[caption id="attachment_2400" align="aligncenter" width="871"] Monday night's guests are the legendary James Rivers, saxophonist Ed "Sweetbread" Peterson and drummer Gerald French. You can also book tickets online at www.thenojo.com[/caption]...
Ann Marie Oliva, director of HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) wrote that "giving priority to the chronically homeless within the New Orleans continuum of care "has made a tremendous impact on reducing the number of chronically homeless persons in their continuum." Stacy Horn...
We’ve housed 85!!! Check out the latest "200 Homes in 100 Days" newsletter here. The 200 Homes in 100 Days Campaign is an effort to house 200 chronically homeless people in Orleans and Jefferson parishes by September 1. ...
The latest newsletter from our 200 Homes in 100 Days Campaign, an effort to house 200 chronically homeless people in Orleans and Jefferson parishes by September 1. We've housed 26!!! Getting closer to 200....
[caption id="attachment_2250" align="alignleft" width="230"] UNITY will announce a significant decrease in homelessness on Wednesday.[/caption] 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...
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...