{"id":289,"date":"2011-02-23T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mriyas.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/thousands-of-us-veterans-homeless\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:21:01","slug":"thousands-of-us-veterans-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mriyas.com\/wp\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of US veterans homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/166561.html\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20110222\/davari-s20110222190038730.jpg\" width=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">The Department of Veterans Affairs has put the number of homeless veterans in the United States at about 107,000.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nearly 76,000 US military veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009, and close to 136,000 veterans resided in shelters that same year, a study has shown.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>According to an assessment recently released by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on a single night in January 2009, 75,609 veterans were homeless with 57 percent of them staying in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 43 percent were either living on the street, in an abandoned building, or other uninhabitable places.<br \/>The Department of Veterans Affairs has put the number of homeless veterans in the United States at about 107,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report offers a much clearer picture about what it means to be a veteran living on our streets or in our shelters,\u201d HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the nature and scope of veteran homelessness is critical to meeting President [Barack] Obama&#8217;s goal of ending veterans&#8217; homelessness within five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 20 percent of the 1.6 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.<br \/>Figures released in 2010 by the Department of Veterans Affairs show a dramatic increase in suicide rates among veterans aged 18 to 29 years old, due in large part to multiple deployments and the overall stress of combat.<\/p>\n<p>MD\/AKM\/MGH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Press TV The Department of Veterans Affairs has put the number of homeless veterans in the United States at about 107,000. 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