UNITY has released a Request for Proposals to provide permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in scattered site housing units in Greater New Orleans. All interested agencies are encouraged to apply. Follow the link for the full document which contains submission instructions. Deadline...
We are excited to announce the first edition of the 200 Homes in 100 Days Newsletter! Released every Monday, we will track our progress housing 200 chronic and vulnerable homeless people in permanent housing in 100 days, as well as highlight some exceptional success stories,...
Sweet Baton Rouge Advocate story today by Danny Monteverde, about Dionne Webb, a low-income working tenant at The Rosa F. Keller Building who pays $518 in rent -- what about half of the city's apartments charged before Katrina, but now a rarity. UNITY is following...
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...
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...
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...
