Public-Private Partnership to Break Ground on Apartments for Workforce and Disabled Homeless

The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) and UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the nonprofit coordinating the work of 60 organizations serving the homeless, will break ground Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. to celebrate the beginning of construction on a mixed-income Permanent Supportive Housing building designed to help solve the problem of chronic homelessness while also providing affordable housing for the city’s workforce. The building, a former assisted living residence foreclosed on after Hurricane Katrina, is located at 2101 Louisiana Avenue in Central City. The ground-breaking ceremony is open to the public.

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