Articles Related to Homeless Veterans
Homeless Veterans Committee Update March/April 2024
April 9, 2024
BY SANDY MILLER, CHAIR HVC-1 – Homeless Veterans as a Special Needs Population: Though the VA has taken many steps, the committee continues to feel that all agencies providing funding for housing of any kind…
Homeless Veterans Committee Update March/April 2023
April 11, 2023
BY SANDY MILLER, CHAIR At the 2019 VVA Convention, the Homeless Veterans Committee combined and rewrote two of our resolutions. The committee now has just four Resolutions to report on. HVC-1 Homeless Veterans as a…
VVA Chapter 196, Lynchburg, VA Hosts Ms. Heath Hardage Lee
April 29, 2022
VVA Chapter 196, Lynchburg, VA hosted Ms. Heath Hardage Lee, who gave a presentation and slid show about her best selling book, "The League of Wives," (the untold story of the women who took on…
Kent Vietnam Veterans Present Service Dog to a Disabled Veteran
April 29, 2022
Retired Air Force MSgt Tim Hamilton and Chocolate Labrador Remington became partners at Mission BBQ in Dover on April 7. The dog was presented by Kent County Chapter 850, Vietnam Veterans of America's CASH program, (Canines Assisting…
Central Oregon Veterans Village
April 22, 2022
The March/April “Veteran” magazine includes an excellent article on homeless veterans by Sandy Miller, Chair, VVA Homeless Veterans Committee. Chair Miller is collecting data on the tiny homes movement and to be made available to…
Homeless Veterans Committee Update March/April 2022
March 31, 2022
BY SANDY MILLER, CHAIR The Homeless Veterans Committee is continuing to investigate the tiny homes movement by collecting data about them, including the costs of establishing new tiny home communities in areas heavily populated by…
Chapter 1051 Donates ‘Cans With a Plan’
March 20, 2020
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1051 joined Disabled American (DAV) Veterans Auxiliary Unit No. 003 and a local homeless veterans program to fill cans with items to donate to homeless veterans in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The cans for…
Chapter 1030 Donates Van to Homeless Shelter
January 8, 2020
Vietnam Veterans of America Cumming (Ga.) Chapter 1030 recently came to the aid of the veterans residing at the Northeast Georgia Homeless Shelter in Winder. The chapter donated a 2014 12-passenger Chevy Express 2500 van to the…
Chapter 106 Affiliate Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing
November 14, 2019
An organization formed in 1989 by the Tucson (Ariz.) Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 106, Esperanza en Escalante, broke ground on the second phase of its affordable housing project for homeless veterans and their families. The $10.5…
Chapter 1015 Donates to Transitional Home
January 23, 2019
Vietnam Veterans of America Cumberland Plateau (Tenn.) Chapter 1015 recently raised and donated $2,815 to the Bread of Life Rescue Mission for use in rehabbing a transitional house for homeless veterans. Bread of Life has worked with…