By Bob Batz Jr.
Starting this week, the number of homeless female veterans and their children will be reduced by a rental house in Crafton Heights — four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a container of brownies at a time.
Project Journey of the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania has been working since 2013 on what it says is a growing problem of homeless female veterans — this in a state with the seventh-largest population of female veterans. Female veterans are estimated nationally to be about 10 percent of the roughly 50,000 veterans who are homeless on a given night.
Since it started, the local project — funded by the United Way of Allegheny County, Newman’s Own Foundation and other donors — has provided emergency shelter for 40 female veterans and support services to 210 of them for employment and other specific issues they face. But previously, the women with children had to be squeezed into one-bedroom apartments or turned away.
This new house will allow the project to serve larger families. It’s the second house the 
project is leasing, along with five single-unit apartments, all of which are given to veterans rent-free, with paid utilities and completely furnished.
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