--- description: Ending veteran homelessness, using Yelp to flag health code violations, measuring opportunity instead of poverty, and more title: How New Orleans Is Housing Homeless Veterans image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How New Orleans Is Housing Homeless Veterans by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**In a U.S. first, New Orleans finds homes for all its homeless veterans. (From February 6, 2015)**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0109/In-a-US-first-New-Orleans-finds-homes-for-all-its-homeless-veterans "undefined") By Noelle Swan in the Christian Science Monitor **2\.** [**City governments are using Yelp to warn the public about restaurant health code violations. (From February 13, 2015)**](https://hbr.org/2015/02/city-governments-are-using-yelp-to-tell-you-where-not-to-eat "undefined") By Michael Luca and Luther Lowe in Harvard Business Review **3\.** [**We’re measuring family poverty wrong. We should measure access to opportunity to find out what’s really working. (From March 4, 2015)**](http://www.aecf.org/resources/measuring-access-to-opportunity-in-the-united-states/ "undefined") By the Annie E. Casey Foundation **4\.** [**With slow and censored Internet and the weakest mobile phone penetration in Latin America, Cuba is the land of tech opportunity for daring investors. (From March 16, 2015)**](http://recode.net/2015/03/13/seeding-a-silicon-valley-in-cuba/ "undefined") By Ramphis Castro in Re/code **5\.** [**Simple stop-and-go labels could train people to eat more healthfully. (From January 14, 2015)**](http://civileats.com/2015/01/07/stop-n-go-can-traffic-light-labels-help-us-eat-better/ "undefined") By Tove Danovich in Civil Eats  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4006108/housing-homeless-veterans-new-orleans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4006108/housing-homeless-veterans-new-orleans/"},"headline":"How New Orleans Is Housing Homeless Veterans","datePublished":"2015-08-21T16:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:58.604Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4006108/housing-homeless-veterans-new-orleans/","keywords":["Innovation","poverty","Cuba topic","Yelp"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4006108/housing-homeless-veterans-new-orleans/","name":"How New Orleans Is Housing Homeless Veterans"}}]}] ```