News From the Cause
Housing for homeless veterans reopens this month: (TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW OREANS)
June 09, 2009
Beginning this month, a transitional housing program for homeless veterans that shut down after Hurricane Katrina will once again accept clients. The Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans facility at 1002 Napoleon Ave., along with two independent-living homes in Mid-City, were heavily damaged during the storm. Their reopening means 56 new beds for homeless veterans in the New Orleans area, who number somewhere between 1,200 and 2,600 in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. [click here to view] (http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/housing_for_homeless_veterans.html)
