HUD Region 10 Public Affairs Soldiers in combat don’t have much time to worry about having a roof over their heads. But it’s back on the agenda once they return home. Turns out, though, that a lot of veterans have a hard time finding one. Every two years in the dead of winter thousands of [...]
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Secretary Donovan on Ending Housing Discrimination Against LGBT Americans. HAMP extended for another year. Affordable housing project in the works for residents in Fort Collins, Colorado. Volunteers in Houston, Texas; Bell County, Texas; Hudson County, NJ; Jacksonville and Cumberland County, NC hit the streets for [...]
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Growing up in a military family, I always knew that I would join the military one day. Following in the footsteps of my uncles, I proudly served my country then separated from the United States Air Force after 11 years. Thanks to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Vocational Rehabilitation program, I was able to [...]
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Today, HUD and VA jointly released the second annual Veteran’s Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR), which assesses the nation’s homeless veteran population. HUD and VA use this information in their work to end veteran’s homelessness through the Obama Administration’s Federal Strategic Plan, Opening Doors. Opening Doors is an unprecedented federal strategy to end veteran and [...]
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It’s a national tragedy that any veteran, after serving our country in uniform, becomes homeless. Veterans are fifty percent more likely to become homeless compared to all Americans and the risk is even greater among veterans living in poverty and poor minority veterans. This is precisely why the Obama Administration established the ambitious goal to [...]
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