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 Evaluation and Project Selection Committee used scoring criteria approved by the Service Providers and Professionals Association to prioritize projects to submit as part of HUD's 2013 CoC Application for Greater New Orleans. Attached is the ranking project listing determined by the committee. 2013 Project...
We need you to help end homelessness in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish! Please consider volunteering to join the teams that will fan out across the city, surveying our community's homeless people for the annual Point In Time count on January 27 and 28. We...
UNITY invites all agencies to consider responding to our most recent Request for Proposals for a new Permanent Supporting Housing Project. Applications are due January 3 at noon. We hope that all eligible entities will consider applying, to assist with the drive to end chronic...
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...