June 2, 2013 - The list of homeless military veterans in Amarillo needing help is not a short one.“It’s a longer list than people would think,” said Sandy Fenberg, executive director of Another Chance House.
“We wouldn’t have our place full and a waiting list if they had assistance, especially Vietnam veterans who didn’t get much in benefits,” she said.
To alleviate the housing problem, the city of Amarillo will receive 20 vouchers totaling $106,000 to aid homeless veterans as part of a national grant through Housing and Urban Development and Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing.
The grant, which was announced Wednesday, will help screened veterans rent privately owned houses, often paying as much as 70 percent of rent, HUD said.
Amarillo is one of nine cities and two counties in Texas that will receive assistance. read more>>>
6/3/2013 - It's just before noon on an overcast and humid Sunday on the National Mall. Regina Best is down on her right knee, a screwdriver firm in her right hand, the nose held steady by her left. As she's done countless times in the past couple of hours, she gives a strong squeeze of the trigger to drill another screw into the frame of what soon will become a home for a family without one.Best is dressed properly for the occasion, with her short, petite frame swallowed up by a baggy gray T-shirt. She wears equally baggy gray shorts that hide her knees, casual black shoes, white socks that conceal her ankles and a left wrist full of trendy plastic bands that, together, are the color of a rainbow.
The kicker of the outfit is the white, rubber-band-like Habitat for Humanity sign tied like a bandana around her dark, naturally curly hair. read more>>>
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