Five years ago, President Barack Obama announced an ambitious plan to house all of the nation’s homeless veterans by the end of 2015. The country has made steady progress since then, with more than 26,000 veterans moved off the streets and into stable housing, but considerable work lies ahead. As the president’s deadline approaches, Stars and Stripes will examine efforts by cities across the country to bring the remaining homeless veterans home.
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The VA will open a transitional housing facility for veterans and soon start a planning process for the redevelopment of its 387-acre campus.
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Living with fellow veterans in permanent supportive housing offers a healing camaraderie, an oasis of shared experience and empathy. “For some of them, being here is the first time they’ve felt connected to anyone since they got out of the military.”
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Since 2010, when President Barack Obama launched a five-year national campaign to end homelessness among veterans, the number of former servicemembers living on the streets has dropped from over 76,000 to below 50,000. Here’s a look at efforts in a handful of U.S. cities' progress, based on figures provided by federal, state and local agencies.
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As thousands of troops leave the military each month without jobs or a plan for permanent housing, a new text messaging program will link vets to peers who can connect them to the services and support they need.
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"I think it will give them a chance to really focus on their mental health and their recovery and just live and get integrated back into the community," Nykhia Burke-Cummings said.
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John McGregor’s blend of compassion and strength was a perfect fit for Firehouse, where he worked from 2014 to 2016. But those close to him knew about his own struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems.
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Last winter wasn’t the first time John Gruve had been homeless, but it was one of the coldest. Since leaving an abusive home at 17, and leaving the Army as a young man in 1989, Gruve hasn’t had stable housing for more than a few years at a time.
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As he toured the tiny home village for veterans just off of Troost Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke left no doubt what brought him to town. “I’m here because of Jason Kander,” O’Rourke said.
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John Ortiz, an Army veteran who served in Iraq and Kuwait, wanted to work alongside other veterans, and he and his wife launched a franchise of JDOG Junk Removal and Hauling, a veteran-owned company with headquarters in Pennsylvania.
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The year was 1967 and Roy Knight Jr. was heading to war. Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he waved goodbye to his father from Dallas Love Field airport — and on Thursday, 45 years later, he helped welcome his father home.
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Rodney Bond, a Henderson veteran, is trying to raise more than $100,000 to build a wall at the Henderson Fairgrounds with the names of every prisoner of war in the Vietnam war.
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Despite a recent uptick, the number of homeless veterans Clay, Duval and Nassau counties has dropped by 82% in the past decade, with the next on-the-ground count of Jacksonville veterans set for Aug. 23.
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Minnesota leaders say landlords are the missing link in the goal to make the state the fourth in the nation to end veteran homelessness in a tight rental market.
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Veterans Village of San Diego will ask the City Council on Tuesday to allow it to accept non-veterans into its residential program, a step expected to improve the nonprofit's finances while serving more people.
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Three Georgetown residents, including a former Army combat photographer in Vietnam and a retired major general, are planning to build a community where severely injured veterans can live in homes specially adapted for them and learn high-tech job skills.
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Residents of a 150-unit building that houses formerly homeless military veterans say they're suffering through a hot summer with inadequate air conditioning and, in some cases, bed bugs.
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An Army veteran with PTSD wanted to get treatment so she could stay a good mother for her children. She didn’t expect that her time away meant she would lose her parental rights through a section of Colorado law that affords parents few legal protections.
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More than 3,000 unclaimed veterans nationwide have been buried with full military honors through the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program. The program, which launched in 2000, was "founded upon the belief that every veteran deserves a dignified and honorable burial,” spokeswoman Ashley Bunton said.
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'I wanted to honor his final wishes': Nurse invites strangers to funeral for Vietnam veteran who died alone
July 10, 2019
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Renewed funds serve Jacksonville's homeless veterans
July 5, 2019
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Astronaut James Lovell helps work to address homelessness among veterans
July 3, 2019
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Veterans to hand out John McCain shirts at July Fourth celebration in DC
July 2, 2019
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Florida city trying to decide fate of WWII-era rec center
June 29, 2019
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Annual San Diego event kicks off weekend of help for homeless vets
June 29, 2019
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Mississippi coalition's outreach to homeless veterans earns national certification
June 19, 2019
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Coaxing veterans into treatment to prevent suicides
June 16, 2019
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Lawmakers introduce bill to help female veterans access legal services
June 12, 2019
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Mission Possible — Food pantry founders turning former Montana boot camp into veterans center
June 9, 2019
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After a 750-mile walk across New York, a veteran and his mission are still going strong
June 2, 2019
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Sixth annual Veterans Peer Support Project tackles PTSD with alternative approach
June 2, 2019
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States and volunteers help give veterans their final honors
May 25, 2019
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County seeks delay in case of homeless who went into coma after jail incident
May 23, 2019
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Veteran injured after tripod thrown into traffic; Police arrest homeless man in case
May 18, 2019
