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Homeless vets with families: An untold part of veterans' struggles

  • Written by Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
imageA homeless Vietnam vet begs for money on a Boston street in 2012. Joseph Sohm/Shutterstcok.com

In 2010, the Obama administration announced the ambitious goal of ending homelessness among veterans. Over the last year, the number of veterans who are homeless dropped 30 percent in Los Angeles County. Nationwide, veteran homelessness fell by almost 50...

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