To commemorate Dr. Everett Williams’ birthday, we will celebrate the dedication of UNITY of Greater New Orleans newest Permanent Supportive Housing building on Tuesday, September 30, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 2101 Louisiana Avenue. Lunch will be served. You are invited to celebrate, enjoy...
UNITY has amended the Request for Proposals #14-2 to provide Rapid Rehousing services. A total of $342,418 will be made available on an annual basis, of which $109,450 is for supportive services, $226,254 is for rental assistance, and $6,714 is for administrative costs. Applicants must maintain two...
UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the lead agency for the homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) for New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, is seeking proposals from nonprofit and governmental agencies to select one project sponsor to provide Rapid Re-housing services to at least 85 homeless individuals...
We have exceeded our goal permanently housing over 240 chronically homeless and vulnerable homeless people between March 1 and July 28! Come celebrate our success on Friday!...
UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the lead agency managing the homeless Continuum of Care for New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, is seeking proposals for one or two nonprofit organizations to provide on-site case management services to formerly chronically homeless and vulnerable homeless persons residing in...
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,...