By Yesenia Amaro
As federal and local officials prepared to celebrate the Las Vegas valley having enough resources to house every homeless veteran, a woman struggled to find permanent housing for her brother — a Vietnam War veteran — on Tuesday.
Joan Donegan, 77, spent the last two weeks fruitlessly searching for housing services available for homeless veterans. Her brother Kenneth J. Sipich, 67, who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, suffers from bipolar disorder.
Sipich is currently renting a room from a nephew who is moving to Colorado next month. Donegan said she can’t take in her brother because it would be difficult, given his mental illness, and she doesn’t want him to end up in the 
streets.
“The information that I got didn’t lead me to any help,” she said Tuesday. “It just sort of feels like a dead end. I would like to see that they are helping by responding.”
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