This blog was written by Sara Siegfried, Jesuit Volunteer Corp volunteer with UNITY of Greater New Orleans. Sara is playing a major role in helping New Orleans end veteran homelessness. This is Ray Charles Griggs, Sr. I encountered Mr. Griggs two weeks ago while doing intake...
136 Veterans permanently housed!! Thanks to Housing Authority of New Orleans for this truly innovative way of helping to end all veteran homelessness! Check out this story about Mr. Riggs, the first beneficiary of this new program....
[caption id="attachment_2902" align="alignleft" width="358"] "I am a six year Air Force Veteran, but I've been homeless for 20 years. Can you imagine what I've had to endure?"[/caption] "Building gets new life housing homeless" -WWLTV Reports A dedication ceremony was held on September 30th for The Dr. Everett...
Jaquetta White from The New Orleans Advocate covered UNITY's 2014 Point in Time count announcement, conducted in partnership with the City of New Orleans, as noted on the mayor's press-release feed, here. White wrote in her Friday, May 2nd Advocate piece about a few UNITY...
Over a few months' time, Times-Picayune reporter Richard Webster and photographer Ted Jackson followed two recently housed, chronically homeless UNITY clients: Philip "Doctor Love" Turner and Manuel "K9" Justin (pictured). In this comprehensive article and video, the journalists conclude that collaboratives like UNITY have begun...
The unprecedented "500 Homes for the Holidays" campaign partners found new ways to work together to house a stunning number of chronically homeless and vulnerable people in 7 months' time....
I couldn't tell you the first time I ever met the Mayor of the Square. I was probably standing in the shade from the Cabildo in Jackson Square, listening to the square's ad hoc brass band along with wandering tourists and locals passing through the...
Cuts to domestic-violence programs and economic hardship are causing more families to seek help in the city's homeless shelters or to sleep in their cars or on the streets of New Orleans. Recently housed mother Trolean Tolliver was featured in a recent New Orleans Advocate...
The UNITY we are today is able to house more chronically homeless people like Manuel Justin. After Hurricane Katrina, UNITY reinvented itself to respond to an explosion of homelessness. This summer, a New Orleans partnership led by UNITY further finetuned the way our teams approach...
We're very close to reaching our goal of housing 500 chronically homeless people by December 31st! Read about how START is helping Sherri and her six children, in this week's full newsletter: ...