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...
[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...
Two years ago, New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, via the UNITY network of homeless service organizations, joined the 100,000 Homes Campaign, a national campaign to house 100,000 of the most vulnerable homeless persons in America by 2014. The 100,000 Homes Campaign is being spearheaded by...
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...
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...
Homelessness down 58 percent since 2007 Read the full report here. UNITY of Greater New Orleans, a 20-year-old award-winning nonprofit that coordinates community campaigns to end homelessness, today released the 2012 report, Homelessness in Greater New Orleans: A Report on Progress Toward Ending Homelessness. This research initiative...
Last week UNITY of Greater New Orleans presented to the New Orleans City Council on the status of the Continuum of Care. Check out our presentation here for more information on the work UNITY does and updates on homelessness in New Orleans....