From UNITY’s experience: 5 lessons for other cities wanting to end veteran homelessness. Click on the picture or here for the full story. ...
JANUARY 07, 2015 NEW ORLEANS, LA – Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that New Orleans is the first major city in the nation to end homelessness among Veterans as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness. Members of the New Orleans...
It took a herculean effort by hundreds of awesome people to make the impossible possible: New Orleans has become the first city to effectively end veteran homelessness!!!!! At 6 pm on Jan. 2, we moved the 227th homeless veteran on our master list into an...
197 Veterans Housed!!! Thanks to the collaborative efforts of many agencies, we were able to open The Sacred Heart Apartments this past Friday! Sacred Heart is a key in our efforts to ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2014! Would you like to know how...
"Dalpiaz, a United States Army veteran, received a holiday present came courtesy of UNITY of Greater New Orleans, which teamed with Catholic Charities and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to move some of the city’s most vulnerable homeless veterans into a new apartment complex...
169 homeless veterans now have the keys to their new homes!! New Orleans is so close to our goal of ending veteran homelessness! Check out these great stories in this weeks newsletter! ...
This blog was written by Sara Siegfried, Jesuit Volunteer Corp volunteer with UNITY of Greater New Orleans. Sara is playing a major role in helping New Orleans end veteran homelessness. This is Ray Charles Griggs, Sr. I encountered Mr. Griggs two weeks ago while doing intake...
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 unprecedented "500 Homes for the Holidays" campaign partners found new ways to work together to house a stunning number of chronically homeless and vulnerable people in 7 months' time....