216 Housed in 95 Days
August 28, 2013
We have exceeded our goal of housing 200 chronically homeless people in 100 days! Read the NOLA.com article here. ...
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New UNITY data, plus keynote by Irvin Mayfield
March 26, 2013
[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...
“They need more resources”
November 25, 2012
"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...
Ribbon-cutting for The Rosa F. Keller Building
June 28, 2012
On June 22, 2012 the tenants of The Rosa F. Keller Building cut the ribbon for the grand opening of New Orleans first mixed-income, permanent supportive housing building for the homeless....
Los Angeles Project 50 shows it costs more to leave vulnerable neighbors on the street than it does to house them permanently
June 13, 2012
A research authority with the County of Los Angeles has released its cost-effectiveness findings on Project 50, the County's ambitious 2007 effort to move its most long-term, vulnerable homeless people into permanent housing. The report compared a cohort of long-term homeless individuals who did not participate in...
UNITY showcases Priest’s portrait of a forlorn child
June 11, 2012
UNITY's Executive Director, Martha Kegel said that she believes that the Priest piece is intended to be a commentary about New Orleans and its failed federal levees. "That which was supposed to protect us - the levee system -- was instead the instrument of our...
Progress in reducing homelessness is remarkable: An editorial from the Times-Picayune
May 31, 2012
Progress in reducing homelessness is remarkable There were just more than 2,000 homeless people in the two parishes before Hurricane Katrina, a figure that exploded to more than 11,600 by January 2007. But according to a January count by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the number...
UNITY’s First Tenant Moves into The Rosa F. Keller Building
May 30, 2012
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11am Johnnie Suer became the first tenant in a brand-new, 60-unit building at Tulane Avenue and Galvez Street--The Rosa F. Keller Building. This building, owned by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, is the New Orleans' first mixed-income Permanent Supportive...
Groups seeing rise in severe mental health cases among N.O. homeless
March 12, 2010
With New Orleans' stock of blighted structures still among the nation's largest nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina, residents on Monday implored advisers to Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu to take tough action against delinquent property owners. In offering suggestions to Landrieu's task forces on housing and blight,...