Due to Hurricane Isaac, UNITY is extending the Request for Proposals deadline for the Housing First Project to Monday, September 17 at 9 a.m. UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the lead agency for the homeless Continuum of Care for Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, is seeking proposals...
THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Love Sessions on Sunday to support UNITY. We are so grateful to musician extraordinaire and UNITY Communications Chair, Irvin Mayfield, for organizing the event, and to Kermit Ruffins and the Royal Sonesta Hotel for their generosity toward...
UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the lead agency for the homeless Continuum of Care for Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, is seeking proposals for the “Housing First Permanent Housing Project,” a new Permanent Supportive Housing tenant-based rental assistance project which will provide approximately 40 disabled homeless...
Today’s blog is by UNITY outreach worker Demetra Phoenix. The day started as any other work day would. I went to an outreach meeting first thing in the morning. On the agenda was the weekly discussion of how to get into housing those homeless people we...
Two years ago, New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, via the UNITY network of homeless service organizations, joined the 100,000 Homes Campaign, a national campaign to house 100,000 of the most vulnerable homeless persons in America by 2014. The 100,000 Homes Campaign is being spearheaded by...
Mr. Clifford Burchfield, pictured above, sleeps in an abandoned building in New Orleans with no plumbing, electricity or running water, but he still devours the news every day from the Times-Picayune newspaper. Last month McClatchy ran an article about the importance of the Times-Picayune to New...
On June 22, 2012 the tenants of The Rosa F. Keller Building cut the ribbon for the grand opening of New Orleans first mixed-income, permanent supportive housing building for the homeless....
A research authority with the County of Los Angeles has released its cost-effectiveness findings on Project 50, the County's ambitious 2007 effort to move its most long-term, vulnerable homeless people into permanent housing. The report compared a cohort of long-term homeless individuals who did not participate in...
UNITY's Executive Director, Martha Kegel said that she believes that the Priest piece is intended to be a commentary about New Orleans and its failed federal levees. "That which was supposed to protect us - the levee system -- was instead the instrument of our...
Progress in reducing homelessness is remarkable There were just more than 2,000 homeless people in the two parishes before Hurricane Katrina, a figure that exploded to more than 11,600 by January 2007. But according to a January count by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the number...