Budget cuts might slow improvements in veterans’ homelessness

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/05/210746/budget-cuts-might-slow-improvements.html


Budget cuts might slow improvements in veterans’ homelessness
By Kendall Helblig
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 5, 2013

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON The country has made progress toward its goal of ending veterans’ homelessness by 2015, but budget cuts might stand to threaten the momentum, according to federal officials.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies announced the target in 2010 as part of the Opening Doors campaign, seeking to end chronic and veterans’ homelessness by 2015 and to end homelessness among children, families and youth by 2020.

Since 2010, homelessness among veterans has fallen by 24 percent across the country, according to a point-in-time report that the Department of Housing and Urban Development released late last month. The assessment measures homelessness on a single night in January each year.

In HUD’s most recent assessment, 57,849 veterans were homeless nationwide.

[Aristus]

1. Well, at least as long as the billionaires get their precious tax cuts...