<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">There should be no such thing as a homeless vet. <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>Courtesy of the Army Times at:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/06/military-senate-bill-aims-to-help-homeless-female-veterans-061912w/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/06/military-senate-bill-aims-to-help-homeless-female-veterans-061912w/</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>-----------------------------------</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); FONT-SIZE: 12px" class=yiv472507777Apple-style-span>
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<DIV><SPAN>The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairwoman unveiled a bill Monday aimed at helping homeless female veterans.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The Veterans Affairs Department and Obama administration have been making progress toward a goal of eliminating veterans’ homelessness within five years, with a 12 percent reduction in homeless veterans between 2010 and 2011.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the veterans’ committee chairwoman, said she is pleased by the progress, which has come largely through <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>interagency</SPAN> efforts, but “the number of homeless women veterans has continued to increase.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Part of the reason is the scarcity of housing options for women with children, she said — and often when housing is available, it is inadequate.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“Infrastructure needs such as private and secure rooms and
showering facilities are often lacking,” she said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>As a result, women are placed “in uncomfortable and potentially unsafe situations,” she said. “We can and should do better.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The bill Murray introduced Monday, S 3309, would provide community grants for transitional housing on the condition that it meets physical privacy, safety and security needs, providing legal services to help low-income veterans find permanent housing.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“No veteran should have to choose between housing and their safety or between housing and remaining with their family,” she said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>-----------------------------------</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Tom Hansen</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Moscow, Idaho</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If not us,
who?</SPAN><BR><SPAN>If not now, when?"</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>- Unknown</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR></DIV>
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