The Office Of Homeless Services And Strategy program provides support and resources for those experiencing homelessness in the community. This site serves as a guide to emergency shelters, food assistance, healthcare, and other essential services available in the New Orleans area.
We aim to connect individuals and families to the help they need with dignity and compassion. Please utilize this site as a reference for emergency and long-term support options.
Sustaining an End to Street Homelessness
The Home for Good Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive, ten-year roadmap to sustain and expand progress toward ending unsheltered homelessness. The plan outlines a strategic framework to make unsheltered homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring through targeted investments, operational reforms, and system-wide coordination.
As of the end of May 2025, the Home for Good initiative has housed over 1,000 people, closed eight encampments, and dramatically reduced emergency responses to street homelessness. The Sustainability Plan builds on that progress with a clear structure for continuing success, including launching a new phase to close New Orleans’ inner core to street sleeping. The plan will guide the community toward ending unsheltered homelessness by strengthening leadership and coordination, deploying rapid street outreach teams to engage individuals sleeping outside, accelerating housing from homeless shelters, and securing sustainable public-private funding.
View Home For Good Plan
Additional Resources
Resource Map
The City of New Orleans is seeking a partner organization to serve as the Administrator of its $4,500,000 Home for Good Initiative.
The New Orleans Home for Good Initiative, aims to reach low or no unsheltered homelessness by the end of 2025. The Home for Good Rapid Rehousing Initiative includes rental subsidies, security deposits, and stabilization case management services. The City of New Orleans seeks to partner with an organization to act as the Administrator for rental subsidies security deposits, and case management dollars that support those experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Orleans Parish and being rehoused through the Home for Good Initiative.
The deadline to apply for the available funding is January 17, 2025. A virtual information session will be held for interested applicants on Monday, January 6, 2025
Download the Notice of Funding Availability
Download the Application Packet
Watch Information Session Presentation