Street homelessness in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish decreased 24% between January 2024 and July 2025 — the result of a public-private partnership among government, business, philanthropy and nonprofits to provide housing and services to the most vulnerable.
Unfortunately, this progress will soon disappear if recently announced severe federal cust to housing vouchers, especially the evisceration of Permanent Support Housing for people with disabilities experiencing homelessness, are allowed to be implemented.
The persistence of New Orleans’ homelessness problem is rooted in its housing affordability crisis. New Orleans now has the highest income gap of any major city in the nation, with the top 20% of the population having incomes nearly eight times higher than the bottom 20% of the population. Twenty-three percent of New Orleanians live below the poverty line…