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,...
Cities are moving away from long-term shelter and focusing, instead, on developing better ways to identify and prioritize vulnerable individuals and families, prevent crises, and rapidly re-house people, using short- or long-term assistance as needed....
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...
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....
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...
I couldn't tell you the first time I ever met the Mayor of the Square. I was probably standing in the shade from the Cabildo in Jackson Square, listening to the square's ad hoc brass band along with wandering tourists and locals passing through the...
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...