Homeless vets get a hand

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2008-12-13 15:15

Article here. Excerpt:

"It's a shameful fact that when you look at a homeless population, you can go '1,2,3,4,' and that fourth person will be a homeless vet," he said.

Patterson said that according to a 2007 count by the Greater Lansing Homeless Resolution Network, there are about 800 homeless veterans in Lansing.

"When you look at the addition of beds for the homeless - homeless vets in particular - it's something that's needed," said Joan Jackson Johnson, director of Lansing's Human Relations and Community Services Department, who attended the ceremony. "We have too many veterans that are homeless."

Like0 Dislike0