The Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) have cooperated on another initiative toward their mutual interest in housing with the publication of Veteran Homelessness: Supplement to the 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress.
According to the joint assessment, nearly 75,609 veterans were among the homeless counted in the one-night 3,000 city tally conducted in January, 2009. Approximately 43 percent of the veterans counted were living on the street, in abandoned housing, or other areas unfit for human habitation and the remaining 53 percent were housed in shelters. Over the course of the entire year an estimated 136,334 veterans spent at least one night in a shelter or transitional housing. This is one of every 168 veterans in the country.
This is the second joint venture between HUD and the VA. Last June they announced the expansion of the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program in which HUD provides rental assistance to veterans with outreach and supportive services provided by the VA. The program will ultimately invest $75 million in the program which is planned to serve over 7,700 veterans and their families.
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Source: http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02102011_veterans_homelessness.asp
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