JANUARY 07, 2015
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that New Orleans is the first major city in the nation to end homelessness among Veterans as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness. Members of the New Orleans...
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...
"Dalpiaz, a United States Army veteran, received a holiday present came courtesy of UNITY of Greater New Orleans, which teamed with Catholic Charities and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to move some of the city’s most vulnerable homeless veterans into a new apartment complex...
We are so grateful to everyone who helped create this miracle! Today the very first tenants will move into the Sacred Heart Apartments -- 11 chronically homeless, disabled veterans who risked their lives for the rest of us only to find themselves having to live...
169 homeless veterans now have the keys to their new homes!! New Orleans is so close to our goal of ending veteran homelessness! Check out these great stories in this weeks newsletter!
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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....
He's not the same man whose statue is in Jackson Square for saving New Orleans in the War of 1812. He fought in a more recent war.
And he didnt move into the White House. He moved into homelessness.
This Andrew Jackson was honorably discharged as an...