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Veteran crisis: Newest war vets become homeless at alarming rate

As comfortable as Sanford, 22, feels in his new home, it isn't his--he shares it with up to eight other war veterans. Otherwise known as the Ark of Eagle Mountain, it is a transitional facility for soldiers who have come home from war only to find themselves without a place to live. Ref. Source 8

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Comments: I am a Vietnam War combat veteran. While the VA will provide institutionalized housing for homeless veterans, it will not provide independent (apartment) housing assistance to a veteran unless the veteran has a significant psychiatric diagnosis and/or a diagnosis of substance abuse. This is a clear injustice punishing veterans for simply being homeless for economic reasons. The VA should provide assistance for independent housing for all homeless veterans rather than discriminating against veterans as per the aforementioned. At the same time, the VA should provide meaningful employment for veterans concomitant with the veteran's educational and training qualifications. The VA has the means to do the same. Why hasn't it done the same?

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Homeless veterans on rise in San Diego

As part of a landmark 2009 initiative to end homelessness among veterans by 2015, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is offering new programs and claims to have cut the number of veterans on the streets by almost half in two years. In San Diego, however, the trend is going the other way. Ref. Source 5

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The fact that there is a rising number of homeless veterans in the southern California area means that the VA numbers may be skewered. I think the other areas are seeing a decrease in the homeless vets as the vets are slowly migrating to other places. I do not think the USA government or the VA are doing nearly enough to assist the veterans who are jobless and homeless.

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They don't care, plain and simple. As an American, it's an embarrassment to see how the government treats our veterans after all they have done for our country.

Over 1/4 Of USA Homeless Are Veterans

75,000 US veterans could be homeless :

Data published by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs shows that over 75,000 US military personnel could be homeless after they return from foreign wars. Ref. Source 8

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Jobs are what returning veterans need most

Today, estimates are that 5,000 Utah veterans are unemployed - a number that got a jolt one week ago when a deployment to Iraq involving 400 Utah National Guard members was abruptly scrubbed at the last minute. The cancellation left many in the battalion without a place to live, without a job or unable to register for college classes with fall schedules already under way. Ref. Source 2

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Majority of homeless Iraq and Afghanistan vets have PTSD:

A new Yale study looks at the demographics of homeless vets and finds care lacking Ref. Source 1