Daily Torch: Just three years ago the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was criticized nationally for allowing veterans to die while waiting to receive care. Today, under President Donald Trump veteran homelessness is down significantly and the VA is expanding its capabilities to care for our nation’s soldiers. As the VA becomes more efficient and effective, other agencies must look to their improvements to ensure they are also serving the American people in the best way possible.
A 2018 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report shows that total veterans homelessness is 5.4 percent lower than in 2017. HUD reports a 10 percent decline in female veteran homelessness as well. Additionally, three states — Connecticut, Delaware and Virginia — and 64 communities have effectively eradicated homelessness among veterans in the last year.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson attributes this decline to a close partnership made between the VA and HUD. While HUD works to establish temporary homes for veterans, the VA assists with job training and health care to help veterans find a more permanent living situation.
Since this partnership was developed in 2010, veteran homelessness has declined by nearly 50 percent.
The VA has been able to significantly increase the quality of life for veterans by looking outside its walls for effective programs. By expanding private sector options and telehealth services, the VA has become less of a provider of care and more of a resource for care options- a job it does far more effectively.
Earlier this year, President Trump signed the VA Mission Act into law to allow veterans greater access to private sector healthcare. MORE
If you solve homelessness, what will the left-wing drag out every time a Republican is President?
All they got left in the George Soros storage lockers is George Bush is Hitler signs..
It’s amazing what can be fixed if you want to.
Trump is a DOER. If those bastards
in DC would stop trying to constantly stab him just think of what he could accomplish.