When once-homeless Army Veteran Tyrone Bradley moved into his Columbia, […]
An estimated 500 Native American Veterans are expected to benefit from housing and supportive services provided under the first-ever Tribal HUD-VASH program, which launched in early January 2016.
“I would urge any Veteran who’s on the street, who’s living in their car, to give this a chance, because it’s an opportunity you don’t understand until you’ve actually experienced it."
Communities across the United States count on the support of organizations of all types—businesses, nonprofit service providers, foundations and so many others—to help Veterans who are homeless, or one tough break away from it.
"Being homeless, you kind of lose touch, my music has given me the opportunity to regain that touch, along with the assistance from VA."
“I’ll use it to ride down to the market, too. It will be extremely helpful.”
In addition to cycling to work, Anderson said he’ll use his bike to get to the grocery store and pay his bills. “I’m also going to use it to find a second job,” he added.
At the time, there were just shy of 700 homeless Veterans remaining in New York City, and Bombas did not hesitate to send that many pairs of socks. NY Harbor received 600 pairs and Bronx received 100 for distribution to Veterans in VA funded HCHV Contract Residential Care programs and GPD transitional housing programs, to those in New York City shelters, and to distribute onsite at the medical centers and outpatient clinics.
Johnnie Mims' life was transformed in 2015, he said, when he got a spot in VA’s Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) program at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
In addition to the support of our government, nonprofit and corporate allies, evidence-based strategies like Housing First and supportive programs are helping thousands of Veterans get and stay housed.
Moving a Veteran from homelessness into a permanent home should ideally be a quick process. Yet the reality is that it sometimes takes a few weeks, or months, to transition a Veteran to an identified housing unit.
Hire MI Vet is a community collaboration to jumpstart the careers of Michigan Veterans exiting homelessness or experiencing housing instability.
"We’ve maintained ‘functional zero’ because of our eternal vigilance and intense commitment to quickly house any Veteran who becomes homeless because of disability or poverty.”