In 2022, VA set a goal to house 38,000 homeless Veterans. With only a few months to go, how are we doing?
Army Veteran lived with no heat in Buffalo for two decades after home flooded. HUD-VASH program found her a home. “VA very open for helping.”
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Army Veteran Donald Wolfer is part of a group that makes up 90 percent of the hotline’s staff—Veterans and members of military families.
Ending Veteran homelessness is a group effort — and regardless of your role in your community, you can become part of the solution.
In the first year of the partnership, Bombas delivered over 700 pairs of socks to the VA New York Harbor Health Care System that were then distributed to homeless Veterans by way of homeless shelters, VA community-based outpatient clinics and VA medical centers.
This year, Veterans Day also marks the first day of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, an annual initiative to educate the public on how they can help fix the critical but solvable problems of homelessness and food insecurity.
Today, VA announced it has awarded $343 million in grants to 288 nonprofit organizations to help low-income Veterans and their families.
Since the three groups began collaborating in fall 2015, their efforts have housed more than 380 formerly homeless Veterans across Kent County, Michigan.
Through VA and its range of community partners, homeless Veterans are housed and then given access to the specific resources they need to stay housed so that they can achieve their full potential.
“It's more than just about having somewhere to sleep. It’s about having somewhere where I feel safe; it’s about having somewhere I feel supported; it’s about being a part of something.”
Today, women comprise approximately nine percent of all Veterans, and the best available official estimates suggest that they make up the same proportion of the homeless Veteran population.