Veteran Homelessness

Cities across US slash homelessness for veterans, By Brian MacQuarrie, March 14, 2016, Boston Globe: “Perched on a Spartan bed with a simple metal frame, a tiny bathroom only a few feet away, 61-year-old George Gisoldi beams as he surveys his shoebox-size domain.  The disabled Air Force veteran is no longer homeless.   ‘I have a home to go to. I have a place to go to. I’m somebody,’ Gisoldi, a native New Yorker, said as sunlight streamed through oversize windows at a former Catholic school in Brooklyn. Gisoldi is part of a national response to a federal call to move veterans off the streets. In New York, red tape has been cut, staffing added and consolidated, and veterans identified shelter by shelter, street corner by street corner.  As a result, the homeless veterans living on the street in this teeming city of 8 million have all but disappeared…”