Many Homeless in U.S. Are Veterans

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Thursday, November 27, 2003, By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of homeless veterans will be
walking into shelters and soup kitchens on Thanksgiving, and advocates
warn that many more will follow if the United States does not prepare
to assist soldiers returning from the current war in Iraq.

"We have to be almost hyper-vigilant when these guys get back," said
Steve Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource
Center (search), an advocacy organization for Persian Gulf War-era
veterans.

U.S. veterans face a greater chance of becoming homeless than the
general population, say experts. According to the National Coalition
for Homeless Veterans (search), a study released in 1999 found that
while veterans count for 9 percent of the entire population, they are
nearly 23 percent of the homeless population and 33 percent of the
adult male homeless population.

The 1999 report — the most recent of its kind — issued by the
Interagency Council on Homelessness (search) showed that nearly 85
percent of ho...

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