Long-term funding essential to supporting veterans experiencing homelessness
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Riverside, Stoll, Alabaré and Launchpad are the four main providers of supported housing for veterans in the United Kingdom. Director of Operations at Riverside Lee Buss-Blair tells us how they have been working together to highlight the growing crisis they face and the significant risk of collapse of specialist housing for homeless veterans.
Understanding the full extent of veteran homelessness is difficult, as there is a lack of consistency across local government and the third sector when it comes to capturing data relating to someone’s status as a veteran.
Latest estimates indicate that between 100 and 400 veterans sleep rough ever year and a further 3,000 to 4,000 face homelessness in cars, or derelict buildings – something no veteran or civilian should experience. The most recent CHAIN Data indicates 5% of rough sleepers were veterans, and this data has ranged between 3% and 4% for many years. Veterans make up 5% of the UK population, so veterans are not overrepresented in the...
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