News From the Cause
An Army of Homeless: (AffordableHousingFinance)
January 08, 2009
The number of veterans on the streets is already high, but there are growing fears it will increase as soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan. "We're seeing more of them," says Michael Blecker, a Vietnam veteran and executive director of Swords to Plowshares in San Francisco, one of the nation's premier organizations providing housing and social services to veterans. The group houses approximately 200 people at a given time in its transitional and permanent housing units, including a handful of formerly homeless Iraq and Afghanistan vets. click here to view
