U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday announced that veteran homelessness in the U.S. continued to decline in 2019, including across Texas.
Statewide, veteran homelessness declined by 6.7-percent in 2019, with an overall decline of 64.8-percent since 2010.
“Our nation’s veterans have sacrificed so much for our country and now it’s our duty to make certain they have a home to call their own,” said Secretary Carson. “We’ve made great progress in our efforts to end veteran homelessness, but we still have a lot of work to do to ensure our heroes have access to affordable housing.”
Each year, thousands of local communities around the country conduct one-night “Point-in-Time” estimates of the number of persons experiencing homelessness—in emergency shelters, transitional housing programs and in unsheltered locations. HUD estimates among the total number of reported veterans experiencing homelessness in 2019, 1225 Texas veterans were found in sheltered settings while volunteers counted 581 veterans living in places not meant for human habitation, for a total of 1806.
