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: ...
But now, with support from UNITY, Mr. Dawson is housed and is learning to do things himself. This blog post is by Emily Leitzinger, a case manager at UNITY’s award-winning Rosa F. Keller Building, a UNITY-owned apartment community for the working poor and for disabled people rescued from homelessness. On...
Please consider donating basic household items so that formerly homeless people can start a new life. Click here for a list of needed items. Or click here to donate online to UNITY....
The Times-Picayune / Nola.com covered the winning pitch by Emily's Danielson (second from left) for the Greater New Orleans Foundation's "Pitch-It" innovation challenge. Read it here:...
Join UNITY of Greater New Orleans at the Greater New Orleans Foundation's Pitch-It event this Monday! UNITY was selected as a semi-finalist and will present our idea for a new coordinated assessment system utilizing a new SuperTool. Please come cheer us on and have some...
Ann Marie Oliva, director of HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) wrote that "giving priority to the chronically homeless within the New Orleans continuum of care "has made a tremendous impact on reducing the number of chronically homeless persons in their continuum." Stacy Horn...
