The latest newsletter from our 200 Homes in 100 Days Campaign, an effort to house 200 chronically homeless people in Orleans and Jefferson parishes by September 1. We've housed 26!!! Getting closer to 200....
We are excited to announce the first edition of the 200 Homes in 100 Days Newsletter! Released every Monday, we will track our progress housing 200 chronic and vulnerable homeless people in permanent housing in 100 days, as well as highlight some exceptional success stories,...
[caption id="attachment_2250" align="alignleft" width="230"] UNITY will announce a significant decrease in homelessness on Wednesday.[/caption] At UNITY's annual meeting --- on Wed., March 27 -- we will announce new data showing a decrease in homelessness over the past year. Join us! Wednesday, March 27 at 10 a.m. Holy Angels...
It's the most basic reason for New Orleans' constant churn of homeless households: when people can't earn enough to afford rent, they fall into homelessness. Check out the National Low-Income Housing Coalition's new Out of Reach report: "The estimated average wage for a Louisiana renter is...
UPDATE: To all of our Point in Time count volunteers -- thanks so much for the many hours you spent on the streets counting homeless individuals earlier this month. Thanks to HUD, the VA, the city of New Orleans, Jefferson Parish and everyone else who...
From The Advocate, Annette Sisco's column about giving to the UNITY warehouse. And it's worth re-posting Eva Barkoff's beautiful Advocate piece from last month about the warehouse. Read it here. To donated new or gently used household goods (no clothing, please), call Joe Heeren-Mueller at (504) 483.9300. The...
UNITY's Laniker Hunter and Brandi Gaines-Girard hand out blankets and ferry homeless people to shelters, on a recent freeze night as reported on WWL TV by Monica Hernandez: Watch it here, as UNITY takes to the streets. ...
[caption id="attachment_2132" align="aligncenter" width="258"] A newly empty doorway, where oneof UNITY's clients used to sleep.[/caption] By Mike Miller, UNITY’s director of supportive-housing placement There is one simple vindication for all the daily frustrations of being an outreach worker -- the disjointed, the systems of broken systems,...
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....
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...