UNITY of Greater New Orleans celebrates the release of Mayor Landrieu’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, which UNITY, by virtue of its longstanding role as lead agency for the homeless Continuum of Care and administrator of collaborative grants for permanent and transitional housing and services,...
By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune [caption id="attachment_1638" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rusty Costanza, The Times-Picayune. A homeless man sleeps in a tent given to him by the Occupy NOLA group at their Duncan Plaza camp in New Orleans earlier this month. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will announce...
“What we got next?” Travers asks. It had been a long day and night as we scratched off a rather substantial list of abandoned buildings, musty underpasses and urine soaked doorways on our clipboard. We’re rubbing our tired eyes and cautiously monitoring the digital clock on...
Mr. B. with his case manager, Ali Salinas. Photograph by Katy Quigley[/caption] We are happy to announce that one of UNITY’s clients has been featured on the HUD Homeless Resource Exchange website as a ‘promising practice and success story’ of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid...
Every day I pass the intersection of Opelousas and Newton. There’s a roof there with a hole carved out the top, shingles tossed to the side. It’s where someone was pulled from the depth of their Katrina hell sequestered in a dark attic waiting for...
Homelessness in New Orleans remains a pervasive crisis in our community. There are 9,165 persons meeting the HUD definition of homelessness in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish on any given night. This report provides an in-depth analysis of homelessness in our community, including factors leading...
[caption id="attachment_1453" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mike Miller spends his days and nights doing outreach work with New Orleans' homeless, looking to help "the sickest of the sick." Jesse Hardman for TIME"][/caption] By Jesse Hardman / New Orleans Monday, June 06, 2011 "Don't throw up now," Mike King says...
[caption id="attachment_1447" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A team of four housing nonprofit groups wants to turn the former Bethany Home nursing home at 2535 Esplanade Ave. into apartments for 40 formerly homeless and low-income tenants."][/caption] Published: Monday, June 06, 2011, 8:00 AM By Stephen Babcock, The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune Despite...
Homelessness remains a daunting problem in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, 5 1/2 years after the nation's largest housing disaster when the levees failed following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Despite the fact that the city of New Orleans has only about 80% of its...
Published: Thursday, June 02, 2011, 9:45 PM By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune The homeless population in Orleans and Jefferson parishes stands at 9,200, 70 percent higher than before Hurricane Katrina, with the largest share of people living in abandoned buildings, according to counts and estimates released Thursday...