Tuesday 22nd February, 2011
Tens of thousands of US veterans without a place to stay
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has determined that around 75,600 veterans are now homeless.
After a survey taken on one night in January 2009 it was determined most of the homeless vets needed to turn to emergency shelters or transitional housing programs for accommodation.
The remaining 43 percent were either living on the streets or in abandoned buildings.
Many were in totally uninhabitable places.
Veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and even from earlier conflicts suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Some are unable to return to their old lives when they return from combat zones.
The overall stress of combat has caused many veterans to take their own lives.
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