[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...
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...
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...
“Hey UNITY, I’m waiting for you!!!” These are the words shouted from the front porch of a shotgun double in Central City as we drove past in the van this afternoon. The man shouting them yells them nearly verbatim whenever he sees us. We’ve met him...
I’m jogging Max, now 16 months old and 90 pounds of K-9 energy. It is Monday morning, around 9:20am. I’ve recently switched from traditional running shoes to some sort of 5-toed soft shoes that are intended to mimic the effects of barefoot running. I like...
Keeping a roof over one's head has become measurably more difficult since Katrina. The proof is in the statistics from the year 2008 that local demographer Allison Plyer presented at Loyola University Saturday morning at a symposium convened by the Jesuit Social Research Institute. A family...
Published: Friday, September 17, 2010, 7:00 AM Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune A plan to convert an abandoned Esplanade Avenue nursing home into a 40-unit apartment complex for low-income and disabled homeless tenants got a green light Thursday from the New Orleans City Council, but the developers still...
Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 9:45 PM Updated: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 12:06 AM Times-Picayune Staff A proposal to transform an abandoned Esplanade Avenue nursing home into a 40-unit apartment complex for some of the city's most vulnerable homeless people has stirred up virulent opposition from some...
Esplanade Ridge Residents Worry About Odyssey House POSTED: 4:34 pm CDT September 16, 2010 NEW ORLEANS -- The City Council approved a plan Thursday for an apartment complex for the homeless to move forward, but neighbors in the Esplanade Ridge community said the fight is far from...
by Katie Moore / Eyewitness News wwltv.com Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:13 PM NEW ORLEANS -- A program in New Orleans funded by a federal stimulus grant that's supposed to get the homeless off the streets has left at least 65 landlords without rent payments for...