On Saturday, November 10, UNITY in partnership with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and many other government and non profit organizations, broke ground on the next Permanent Supportive Housing building at 2101 Louisiana Ave. Watch the report from WWLTV here....
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) and UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the nonprofit coordinating the work of 60 organizations serving the homeless, will break ground Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. to celebrate the beginning of construction on a mixed-income Permanent Supportive Housing building...
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...
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...
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11am Johnnie Suer became the first tenant in a brand-new, 60-unit building at Tulane Avenue and Galvez Street--The Rosa F. Keller Building. This building, owned by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, is the New Orleans' first mixed-income Permanent Supportive...