By Leo Shane III
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald said his department’s goal of cutting the number of homeless veterans to zero by next January is less important than making sure that number doesn’t rise again in years to come.
“The important thing is not just to get to zero, but to stay at zero,” he said. “How do we build a system that is so capable, that as a homeless veteran moves from Chicago to Los Angeles in the winter, we have the ability to touch them immediately?”
On Wednesday, McDonald addressed about 600 community organizers at the annual National Coalition for Homeless Veterans conference, charging them to keep up the progress thus far as his department’s self-imposed deadline approaches.
From 2010 to 2013, the number of homeless veterans nationwide dropped more than one-
third to about 50,000 individuals, and VA officials expect that number to dip even further when the 2014 estimates are released later this summer.
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