Functional Zero: Housing Homeless Veterans ... Have you heard of this?

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Hopefully every VAMC around the country will start similar programs.
Here in Tucson there is a not-for-profit called Esperanza En Escalante that does the same thing. I am associated with them through my membership in Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association and I love seeing the difference they make in the lives of veterans and their families.

We should be careful about declaring war on things. We have a pretty poor track record of success. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on terror etc.

Gotta tell you, from 20 years city policing experience, there are more than a few homeless that WANT to be homeless. They do not want to conform to norms that's old get them into shelters and off the street, for a start. I don't believe you can ever get to zero, but the VA is doing a good job, in my state anyway, of getting every Vet who wants off the street into transitional housing at the very least.

With so many abandoned houses in communities all over the US which have become eye sores, it is inexcusable that an individual who has served this nation now lives on the street. Veteran Homelessness is akin to Veteran Suicide in that One is too high a number. The goal should be zero. I had a post on another thread about that. Allowing veterans to move into run down abandoned areas, renovate, rebuild, and get the problem fixed.

Unfortunately I just read that LA, CA has an increase in the number of homelessness because of the virus and possibly many Californians loosing their jobs and not being able to pay rent forcing them into homelessness. Long Beach, CA I heard does not want to help the homeless veterans or any homeless individual. I really do hope that the VA assist the increase in number of homelessness as I heard it did up to last year.