Titus Announces $1.5 Million for Housing Program for Homeless Veterans
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Dina Titus of Nevada’s Third District announced today that the Clark County Housing Authority is receiving nearly $1.5 million to provide rental assistance under a supportive housing program for homeless veterans. The funding is provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and is for vouchers through the HUD Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program.
“Nevada’s veterans have made a tremendous sacrifice in service to our nation, yet too many of them do not have a roof over their head,” Congresswoman Titus said. “With veterans facing higher unemployment than the rest of the population during this tough economic time, programs like this are critical to help get our veterans off the streets in to a place they can call home.”
“U.S. VETS is pleased to hear about the funding for supportive housing for veterans. In our efforts to provide housing and support services to homeless veterans since 2001 in Las Vegas, we know firsthand that the number of veterans living on the streets of Las Vegas far outweighs the available housing options,” said Shalimar Cabrera, Site Director of U.S. VETS. “It is estimated by the VA that there are more than 4,000 homeless veterans in Las Vegas. It is a tragedy to know that so many men and women who served our country are homeless. It is our duty as a community to come together for a solution to addressing the tragedy. HUD-VASH rental assistance is a giant step in the right direction for helping our veterans who need us.”
Through HUD-VASH, public housing authorities across the country provide permanent supportive housing and dedicated VA case managers for an estimated 10,000 homeless veterans. The Clark County Housing Authority is receiving $1,494,483 for the program as part of the $75 million that is being awarded at this time through the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act.
HUD has allocated the housing vouchers to local public housing agencies across the country that are specifically targeted to homeless veterans and the proximity of a local VA Medical Center with the capacity to provide case management. In addition to the rental assistance, VA medical centers provide supportive services and case management to eligible homeless veterans.
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Can you please inform me on where I can go to initiate me getting a Voucher ?
I am a Honorably Discharged Viet Nam Era Veteran waiting on my Non-Service Connected Disabilty to kick in and will need housing .
I need a phone number contact to get this going .
Thank You !
Richard Lee Roubaud
Mr. Roubaud, you really might want to reconsider the VASH Voucher; you’ll have a snoopy VA case worker in every aspect of you life 24/7/365; you’ll have to live in a building KNOWN to the community as an “Insane Asylum” and the strung-out heroin addicts & crack fiends way worse off than you, with rules-rules-and more rules, mandatory daily 12-Step Religious cult meetings, never-ending VA group therapy meetings, they will take all of your disability checks. If you want to be treated like a three year old for the rest of your life and live “THERAPY” 24 hours a day…go for it; it’ll take years to get in it though; there’s 50 years of homeless veterans on the streets ahead of you.
Call any VA for the VASH rep
I would like to get the census for how many homeless veterans both women and men in the state of Nevada in both northern and southern Nevada. I would also like unformation on grants for housing veterans, how it works and what I can do to help.
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Most of the Homeless Veterans drop out of these jammed-packed prison-like programs. The program automatically labels & diagnoses the homeless veterans seriously mentally ill & addicted/alcoholic for life, mandatory Evangelical Christianity Insanity conversion, Forced 12-Step Religious Cultism, never-ending “How do you feel?” group therapy nonsense, handfuls of brain-frying meds not even approved for animals, sorting clothes at Goodwill masqueraded as “Job Training, and dead-end min-wage jobs which is what made them homeless in the first place. AND NO PRIVACY EVER IS ALLOWED!