Washington Post needs to look back at homeless figures

Many D.C. Veterans Homeless, Study Says
Report Sounds a National Alarm

By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page B01

As many as 195,800 military veterans were homeless on any given night last year, and there are "troubling" indications that many service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could eventually face the same fate, according to a study being released today.

The report, from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, found that veterans make up a quarter of the United States' homeless population and that the District has a particularly high rate, with an estimated 7.5 percent of the nearly 32,000 veterans in the city living on the streets, in shelters or in assisted housing.

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This is a great piece and worth reading. What the Post didn't do was check the figures from past years from the National Coalition For Homeless Veterans. Then maybe they could answer how the government lost over 100,000 homeless veterans when they couldn't take care of the homeless after Katrina. It's for damn sure they all didn't die suddenly and I really doubt, based on the track record of this administration they managed to house over 100,000 veterans who had already been reported homeless.