UNITY Public Service Announcement
December 21, 2012
CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien graciously voiced our new UNITY public-service announcement, which starts running December 21 on local stations. Check it out here....
Stories
Housing Uncle Jesse
December 4, 2012
By Mike Miller, UNITY's director of supportive-housing placementSometimes I have trouble explaining what I do for a living. When I say I work with the homeless, people often search for an appropriate response. Usually I get: “So what exactly does that mean?” Or sometimes: “Some people don’t...
UNITY working to make “a better community”
November 27, 2012
The Times-Picayune Thanksgiving editorial included several groups that, editors said, work to make New Orleans a better place. UNITY was honored to be included -- read the editorial here. [caption id="attachment_2062" align="alignleft" width="512"] New Orleans Saints Players Turkey Giveaway, one of the events making New Orleans better.[/caption]...
A building that works: The Keller
November 27, 2012
Sweet Baton Rouge Advocate story today by Danny Monteverde, about Dionne Webb, a low-income working tenant at The Rosa F. Keller Building who pays $518 in rent -- what about half of the city's apartments charged before Katrina, but now a rarity. UNITY is following...
Three new grants, to help end homelessness
November 26, 2012
Here are three new funding opportunities for agencies interested in ending homelessness for people in New Orleans: RFP for the Coming Home PSH Bonus Project 11.26.12 RFP for Rapid Rehousing for Chronically Homeless (2).docx 11.26.12 RFP for Finally Home PSH Project 11-26-12e.docx recaptured funds ...
“They need more resources”
November 25, 2012
"Unity, Covenant House and other nonprofit agencies are doing what they can: providing shelter, getting as many people as possible into permanent housing, checking on isolated homeless people spread across the city. But they need more resources," says a Times-Picayune opinion piece focused on the...
Pair of men recruit homeless to help with scam
November 20, 2012
Three stories about this scam, on WWL TV (above) and in the Advocate and on Nola.com/Times-Picayune. The men coax homeless people with IDs to "return" items to retail stores, sell "found" copper to recycling agencies and cash bad business checks at banks....
Newly housed homeless sleeping better
November 20, 2012
Because of donated beds from the nonprofit A Good Night Sleep, dozens of formerly homeless will sleep well tonight in their new apartments, which shelter them but have scarce furnishings. The story, reported by Sula Kim from WDSU-TV. ...
55 homeless moved from under the Pontchartrain Expressway to shelters
November 19, 2012
New Times-Picayune story by Laura Maggi about the dissolved Pontchartrain camp About 55 people who had been staying under the Pontchartrain Expressway were told they must leave the area and moved into shelters early Friday morning. People were evaluated with the goal of eventually moving them...
Plans for state of the art apartments give N.O. homeless new lease on life
November 14, 2012
On Saturday, November 10, UNITY in partnership with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and many other government and non profit organizations, broke ground on the next Permanent Supportive Housing building at 2101 Louisiana Ave. Watch the report from WWLTV here....