Posted on Aug 24, 2016
What do you think about opening up old buildings/barracks on bases for poor and homeless vets and base housing for vets and family?
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Allowing homeless vets or financially strapped vets and even recently released veterans to use base facilities in exchange for a work type program would solve many problems and unused base housing for veterans and their families. The transition can help with the disconnect some feel when entering civilian life. Having the VA on base to assist, access to hospitals, doctors would go a long way.
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That would be a better idea than bringing Syrian refugees over and paying for them. The bases or sections not being used should house our veterans to help get them stable enough to get on their feet.
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They did something like it at March ARB in Moreno Valley Ca. It went through some non-profit organization i believe. Use old closed up barracks, refurbished them for homeless and addicted vets. Not sure of all the details. I remember seeing it a few years ago, it was near the commissary.
It is a good idea with the amount of unused housing, though i'm sure quite a bit of red tape is involved. Fort Hood (among other bases) is allowing civilian renters on base because so much housing is vacant. I'm sure struggling vets and their families would jump at that chance.
It is a good idea with the amount of unused housing, though i'm sure quite a bit of red tape is involved. Fort Hood (among other bases) is allowing civilian renters on base because so much housing is vacant. I'm sure struggling vets and their families would jump at that chance.
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You beat me to it! I was also going to mention March ARB's program.
You beat me to it! I was also going to mention March ARB's program.
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Slippery slope. Now they're housed. Now they need to eat. Then they need schools. Then they need medicine. The list goes on. So my take is if you will not deal with the Full Monty, old barracks is moot.
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With all due respect, who are "they"? Veterans? As I answered in other posts, a well qualified local \base controlled and administered program is what I'm blue skying not a federal program. As far as "they", I'm talking about some veterans , who a year or two earlier were wearing the same uniform as you did. Bases feed, bases school and bases have medical facilities. In that aspect, 20, 30 and even 40 more mouths and bodies could be absorbed. I know it's a poor example but look at how they manage the brig/stockades as a separate Unit/entity and classification of personnel. Can a bunch of well qualified veterans be directed to live and function as part of and separate from a base? Can a veteran perform a "work for housing" type of situation? Sure they can. Can they adhere to military rules, regulations and special policies as part of yet separate entity? Sure they can. This isn't a half way house nor is it a detox center. The slide to drugs, the slide to alcohol the slide to homeless is gradual. It's those individuals the program can help. I'm sure if a family is involved and tthere is excess base housing, the same holds true. It's not section 8, it's struggling veterans and their families. Think about how it can work. We all know the ways it can fail
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