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...
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. ...
