What we do know

Although the numbers of Homeless Veterans is declining since 2009 until the last rating in 2019 and most of the homeless veterans being men we still see a great discrepancy in the amount of African American Veterans being housed as shown below

.What are the reasons for these discrepancies?

How did the federal Government and States respond

The Federal Government through the VA established The Housing First model on a way to sober living and re-integration into society.

The States have introduced in upwards of 79 bills that are directly related to the Veterans Housing crisis.

• 202 million has been appropriated to provide emergency housing and homelessness prevention assistance to low-income veteran families to mitigate the anticipated wave of evictions and the potential homelessness as a result of unemployment. Such funds will also go to assist the HUD-VASH program to provide veterans a safe house to isolate themselves from the virus.
• $88 million has been appropriated to the GPD program, which allows the VA to waive per diem limits during the COVID-19 crisis and to help grantees provide all emergency housing and supportive services, which includes emergency placement for those who need to be isolated for their safety and that of others.
• $10 million will be appropriated to provide emergency shelter and supportive services, including placement in hotel rooms for veterans needing emergency shelter. Such shelter will be paired with care, treatment and rehabilitative services.