Not enough housing for homeless female veterans

[unhappycamper]

Carisa Dogen shows her Veterans Affairs identification card. The Army veteran is among the 7,000 to 8,000 homeless female U.S. military veterans as estimated by the VA.


Not enough housing for homeless female veterans
By James Hannah - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Nov 9, 2008 16:41:31 EST

DAYTON, Ohio — When Carisa Dogen looks back on her life of 38 years, it’s easy to see where she lost her way: She left her hometown of Dayton at 15 and moved to Kentucky, where she graduated from high school and enrolled in electronics school. But drugs beckoned, and she didn’t finish.

She joined the military, but fate intervened and she later found herself homeless — forced to sleep in parks on some nights when it was bitterly cold and rainy, and scavenge for food in trash cans.

“I got accosted a couple of times by males. Walking the streets and stuff, it’s hard and it’s scary,” she said in the comfort of The Other Place, a homeless shelter in Dayton that helped put her into new housing where she will receive treatment and job training.

Particularly bewildering for Dogen, she is an Army veteran. Her life should never have come to this.

Of the 1.8 million female military veterans, Dogen was among the 7,000 to 8,000 who are homeless, as estimated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She is among the few who have benefited from new housing specifically for female veterans, an initiative homeless advocates say falls far short of what is needed.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_homeless_veterans_110908/%2e



uhc comment: We've been talking about homelessness among veterans for along time now. Fully 25% of the entire United States homeless population are veterans. You have no idea how much this pisses me off.

[annabanana]

1. Why can't we do better for these veterans?

Surely they deserve better...

[ColbertWatcher]

2. We need to get every crime perpetrated by the GOP out now!

And in the news and people talking about them.

They need to have all their crimes associated with them and not the next President, President Obama.

[Breeze54]

3. Thank You, unhappycamper, for drawing attention to this CRIME!!!

:grr:

:kick: & Recommended # 5 and happy to do it!


Long time, no see! Hope all is well with you! :hi:

[puerco-bellies]

4. Another kick for veterans day.

This could be totally funded if you take the money going to KBR, and Blackwater and actually gave it to veterans in stead of war for profit, and just plain war profiteers.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. "This could be totally funded if ..."

I agree completely!

Thank you for keeping this kicked!