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The Times-Picayune: More than 100 Volunteers to Assess City’s Most Vulnerable Homeless People Tonight
December 14, 2010
Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 4:15 PM By Martha Carr, The Times-Picayune Over 100 volunteers will fan out to the city's three emergency homeless shelters tonight to interview those using the shelters to determine who is most likely to die if not housed. The initiative is part of...
WWLTV: As Temperatures Drop, Concerns Grow About Fires in Abandoned Buildings
December 13, 2010
by Scott Satchfield / Eyewitness News wwltv.com Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:16 PM Updated Monday, Dec 13 at 10:16 PM NEW ORLEANS -- It's a rescue effort in neighborhoods across the city. When temperatures plunge to dangerous, freezing levels -- as expected Monday night -- crews from UNITY...
Reflections on a Year of Working at UNITY
December 8, 2010
Today's Post is by Cynthia Mitchell, Director of Referral and Shelter Outreach at UNITY Working at UNITY of Greater New Orleans shed a very specific light in my heart and mind on the human price of homelessness and of the need for assistance in being housed....
The Times-Picayune: New Orleans Still Lacks Affordable Housing for its Poorest People, Report Says
December 2, 2010
Published: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 7:00 PM Updated: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 4:47 AM Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune Like other parts of Louisiana, New Orleans still lacks housing that is affordable to its poorest people, the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency found in a statewide assessment of housing...
The Times-Picayune: Esplanade Avenue Apartment Proposal Keeps Running into Roadblocks
November 29, 2010
Published: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 8:00 AM By Stephen Babcock, staff writer Despite getting what seemed to be a green light from the New Orleans City Council in September, a project to transform an abandoned nursing home on Esplanade Avenue into housing for homeless and low-income people...
From the Backwoods of Mississippi
November 12, 2010
[caption id="attachment_1190" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Dr. Chan Crawford"][/caption] Today’s blog is by Dr. Chandra Crawford, UNITY’s director of public policy. “Go back home--we don’t want you here!” “Why would you associate yourself with such trash?” And my favorite, “You must have received your degrees from the backwoods of...
Five Years After Katrina…The Long Road Back
October 19, 2010
AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE • September 2010 While progress has been made, New Orleans still suffers from a lack of affordable housing BY DONNA KIMURA NEW ORLEANS—A few bare walls and broken doors separate Mike Miller from the unknown. “Hey guys, you home?” he calls out while standing outside a...
Supportive housing can curb homelessness in our own backyard: A guest column by Rosanne Haggerty and Martha J. Kegel
October 14, 2010
New Orleanians are engaged in an important conversation about housing the homeless. But misinformation has often stood in the way of productive debate. Data show that permanent, supportive housing -- affordable apartments linked to case management services -- is both good for local communities and...