VA claims there are less homeless veterans now?

There are fewer homeless vets, VA estimates

By Kimberly Hefling - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Mar 6, 2008 12:04:57 EST

WASHINGTON — The number of homeless veterans has declined to just over 150,000, the government says.

The Veterans Affairs Department estimates that on any given night last year, 154,000 veterans were homeless, about a 20 percent decrease from 195,827 in the agency’s 2006 estimate.

The decrease comes even as Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are trickling into shelters. VA has seen about 500 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in homeless-specific programs, and the number is increasing as the pool of troops who fought in the wars grows, said Pete Dougherty, VA’s director of homeless programs.
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They can say what they want to say, but they'll have to actually prove it this time. We suddenly dropped from over 300,000 to less than 200,000. Now they are saying the numbers dropped again. If they have the data to prove this then there has to be data on where all the homeless veterans went. Show us the data! Then we may believe it.