Home is Here NOLA

Lilian Alvarez, Co-Director

Unlocked Futures

Home Is Here NOLA supports newly arriving immigrants in the Gulf South affected by immigration detention, promoting democratized resources, partnership, collective liberation, and belonging for all.

Year Founded: 2021

Home Is Here is a small growth-stage nonprofit organization that cultivates systems of support with and for newly arriving immigrants in the Gulf South, focused on those impacted by immigration detention. We believe in a culture of democratized resources and partnership, collective liberation, and belonging where everyone has a valued place and power. Home is Here builds alternative community infrastructure with immigrants who arrive without family or community support and are criminalized, incarcerated, and excluded from government-funded systems. Our work focuses on organizing and capacity-building in the areas that newly arriving immigrants say they value most: Legal Aid; Housing and Community Relationships. As a young grassroots organization we value relationships, experimentation, and finding alternative solutions to best support community.

By bridging relationships and developing equitable community resources and power among existing community members and newly arrived immigrants, Home is Here NOLA is building belonging and networks of solidarity that support everyone’s survival and healing in an increasingly interdependent world.

Home is Here was founded in 2021 as an exploration in how to build a sustainable community-based system that hasn’t existed in this region for the reception and resettlement of newly arrived immigrants ineligible for public benefits and social services.

Lilian Alvarez

Co-Director

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