Publications
Progress Reversed: After Pandemic Initiatives Drive Homelessness Down, Soaring Rents Push Numbers Back Up
A Gathering Storm October 2020 Report on Homelessness During the Pandemic
Trends in Homelessness in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish
Newsletters
This edition of UNITY’s regular newsletter includes counting those living on the streets of New Orleans; UNITY’s new structure, the Dr. Everett and Melva Williams Building; and a homeless man creating a display in his new home of collected small objects in a backpack for 10 years.
winter 2013 newsletter
UNITY’s regular newsletter: includes housing a young family and making connections to house the chronically homeless
spring 2013 newsletter
UNITY’s regular newsletter: includes PIT count numbers showing an 80% reduction in homelessness since 2007 and a piece about homeless schoolchildren.
2012 CoC Consolidated Application
City of New Orleans 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness – November 2011
The City of New Orleans’ strategic master plan to prevent, reduce and end homelessness.
Homelessness in Greater New Orleans: A Report on Progress toward Ending Homelessness in the Years after the Nations’ Largest Housing Disaster – June 2011
UNITY’s report on current number of homeless persons in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish and current efforts to effectively end homelessness in the community.
Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins – August 2010
UNITY Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team’s findings and recommendations regarding the crisis of homelessness in the 55,000 abandoned buildings throughout New Orleans.
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness – 2010
Federal plan to end homelessness in the next 10 years.
UNITY Homeward Bound Newsletter – May 2010
UNITY receives 2010 Nonprofit Sector Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)
UNITY Homeward Bound Newsletter – August 2009
Hurricane Katrina Fourth Anniversary Edition
UNITY Homeward Bound Newsletter – May 2009
UNITY confronts crisis of elderly homelessness
Duncan Plaza Homeless Re-Housing Initiative
Presentation by UNITY of Great New Orleans Executive Director Martha Kegel on Duncan Plaza Homeless Re-Housing Initiative, 11/21/07 – 12/21/07
Findings from the Claiborne Encampment Survey
UNITY of Greater New Orleans Press Conference to release findings from the February 19, 2008 Claiborne Encampment Survey. The survey was designed to identify housing and health care needs of people sleeping in the Claiborne Encampment.
Update on Duncan Plaza Homeless Re-Housing Initiative
Presentation on Duncan Plaza Homeless Re-Housing Initiative: A monumental humanitarian achievement unprecedented anywhere in America! 11/21/07 – 2/28/08
UNITY Public Policy Action Agenda
A UNITY Public Policy Action Agenda, October 21, 2005