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...
UNITY has released a Request for Proposals to provide permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in scattered site housing units in Greater New Orleans. All interested agencies are encouraged to apply. Follow the link for the full document which contains submission instructions. Deadline...
We're very close to reaching our goal of housing 500 chronically homeless people by December 31st! Read about how START is helping Sherri and her six children, in this week's full newsletter: ...
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...
This week the 500 Homes for the Holidays Campaign collected Move-in Kits to provide necessities for homeless people entering housing. ...
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...
We have housed 443 chronically homeless and vulnerable homeless so far – only 57 left by December 31, 2013! Read the full newsletter here....
