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VA Secretary Promises to Eliminate Veteran Homelessness
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald addressed approximately 600 community organizers at the annual National Coalition for Homeless Veterans conference, urging them to keep making progress toward the VA's self-imposed deadline of ending veteran homelessness this year. Secretary McDonald said his department's goal of cutting the number of homeless veterans to zero by next January is less important than making sure that number doesn't rise again in years to come. "The important thing is not just to get to zero, but to stay at zero," he said. "How do we build a system that is so capable that, when a homeless veteran moves from Chicago to Los Angeles in the winter, we have the ability to touch them immediately?"
According to the VA, from 2010 to 2013, the number of homeless veterans fell by more than one-third, to about 50,000 veterans, between 2010 and 2013. VA officials expect that number to shrink even further when the 2014 estimates are released later this summer. VA funding for homeless assistance and prevention programs has increased dramatically, from $2.4 billion in FY 2008 to nearly $7 billion for FY 2016, providing funds that advocates for the homeless say were nearly nonexistent a decade ago. Despite the downward trend, the VA effort to end veteran homelessness by the end of 2015 is expected to fall short.
In related news, FRA National Executive Director (NED) Tom Snee will testify before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee next week on the topic of veteran homelessness and on specific pending legislation. A copy of the NED's statement will be available on the FRA website next week.
Source: FLEET RESERVE ASSOCIATION
 
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