Federal officials cite UNITY’s leadership, in partnership with Mayor, as key to NO’s success Click on picture or here for full story. ...
From UNITY’s experience: 5 lessons for other cities wanting to end veteran homelessness. Click on the picture or here for the full story. ...
Volunteer registration for the 2015 Point In Time count has begun and will end on Monday, January 16, 2015. WE NEED YOU! The Point In Time Count is not possible without your time and commitment. Every year, UNITY of Greater New Orleans, as the lead agency...
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,...
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...
New Times-Picayune story by Laura Maggi about the dissolved Pontchartrain camp About 55 people who had been staying under the Pontchartrain Expressway were told they must leave the area and moved into shelters early Friday morning. People were evaluated with the goal of eventually moving them...
We never lose. Sometimes it just takes us a while to win. It’s the same tired refrain I often use when a long week has thoroughly kicked my ass, leaving me contemplating my career ambitions and wondering if full-time bartender would be a more fulfilling vocation. ...
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...
Tania Dall / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS -- Homelessness is on the rise across the country, with the number of homeless kids up by 33 percent over the last three years. Those statistics are part of a study released by the National Center on Family Homelessness,...