Navigator of the Month!
April 7, 2015
Check out our Navigator of the Month! Each Navigator is tasked with housing veteran clients within 30 days of encountering them on the streets or in shelters...
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How We Did It: Working Together To End Veteran Homelessness in New Orleans
March 31, 2015
Presentation at the National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference Feb. 19, 2015 Martha J. Kegel, Executive Director for UNITY of Greater New Orleans Click on the picture or here for the full presentation....
The Runner: a blog from UNITY’s outreach team
March 18, 2014
That night we saw someone new, a young lady sitting on a filthy mattress, brushing a mangled wig while rats ran around her feet. A new blog from the streets of New Orleans, by UNITY outreach worker Laniker Hunter-Davis, pictured with her longtime outreach partner,...
The doctor is now IN
December 20, 2013
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...
UNITY seeing increase in homeless families
December 18, 2013
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...
Now able to house Manuel Justin.
December 15, 2013
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...
Disabled and homeless, he relied on people’s kindness.
December 11, 2013
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...