Welcome to Vet Stand Down! I hope to appeal to both veterans and non-veterans and bring attention to veterans, particularly homeless veterans as they journey through the madness of bureaucracy that was created to reduce the homeless number of veterans nationwide. The concept and the opportunity of good intent, the process is one of attrition as veterans encounter all the illness of homelessness and more. A disregard of the individual and addressing that need has gone greatly array as self-reliance has been dismissed to collective compliance which is never explained as dismissive of your intellect. I will write basically on my journey from a veterans shelter (9 months), Help Veterans Apartments (20 mths), living using the HUD-VASH voucher here Las Vegas, Nevada.
A federal program mandated from the top office of the country, monies appropriated to be dispersed throughout the states.
HUD has awarded funding for approximately 10,000 HUD-VASH vouchers each year in 2008-2010 and 2012-2015. Congress appropriated $50 million in 2011 to serve approximately 7,000 voucher families and $60 million in 2016 to serve approximately 8,000 families. In addition, HUD has held three competitions, in 2010, 2014, and 2015, to competitively award a total of over 2,600 project-based HUD-VASH vouchers. Since 2008, a total of over 85,000 vouchers have been awarded.
| Since HUD-VASH is service-intensive and costly, it should be reserved for homeless veterans who need both a housing subsidy and services to exit homelessness and remain housed. |
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that 40,056 veterans are homeless on any given night. And just in 2018, HUD has allocated more than 87,000 vouchers to help veterans find permanent housing across the U.S.
Another report showed that rental assistance programs, like public housing and section 8, has helped more than 340,000 low-income veterans, reducing homelessness within the group by 33 percent.
Vet Stand Down 