Oct 01, 2011 - By next fall, some Raleigh-area veterans will enjoy a different kind of homecoming when a local housing provider opens a 10-unit apartment building for vets who have no permanent place to live."It isn't enough, but it's a start," said Debra K. King, chief executive officer of CASA, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that has been building affordable homes in Wake, Durham and Orange counties for nearly two decades.
It will be the first housing in Wake County built specifically for homeless vets.
"That would help me out definitely," said John Youker, a case manager who works with homeless vets at the South Wilmington Street Center in Raleigh. Each night, the center shelters 234 men, many of them former soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.
Like the shelter's other residents, Youker said, the vets he sees are homeless because of a combination of factors, including poor decision-making and a weak support system of family and friends. Mental health issues and substance-abuse problems are common, he said.
Nationwide, about a third of the adult homeless population is made up of military veterans, most of them single men living in urban areas, according to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans in Washington. read more>>>
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