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Houston officials and service providers say housing is the top priority for area veterans
Summary
At a Houston veterans town hall, city and county officials, the VA and homeless-service providers said housing — including vouchers and rapid rehousing — is the most urgent need for veterans; speakers cited recent counts, limited VASH allocations and city programs that aim to expand housing access.
City of Houston and Harris County officials, veterans-service providers and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center told attendees at a May veterans town hall that housing remains the single most urgent need for local veterans.
Speakers cited the homelessness point-in-time data, limits in voucher allocations and local programs intended to speed veterans into stable housing.
At the town hall, Angel Garment, manager of the homeless response system at the Coalition for the Homeless, said the 2024 point-in-time count recorded 213 homeless veterans in the Houston area and that about 10 percent of those met the federal definition of chronically homeless. Garment noted the point-in-time count measures a single night and “may not be exact,” but said the figure is the basis for…
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