Record Number of Veterans are Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless reports that over 40% of homeless men are veterans. This is an alarming number because only 34% of the male population have served in a war. On any given night, as many as 200,000 veterans are homeless. Although most homeless vets served during late Vietnam and the post-Vietnam era, an increasing amount of homeless vets are veterans of the Iraq war. The founder of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center attributes this growing number to the signature injury of the Iraq War - traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
