Fundamentally, ending Veteran homelessness is about two things:
- Connecting Veterans and their families who are experiencing homelessness now to permanent housing.
- Making sure that no Veteran experiences chronic or long-term homelessness again by putting robust systems into place to ensure that homelessness can be prevented whenever possible -- and if it can't be prevented, that it is rare, brief, and non-recurring.
Earlier this year, USICH, VA, and HUD developed a set of criteria to help communities assess their progress toward achieving the goal of ending Veteran homelessness.
We heard from many communities that they would like the criteria to be clearer about some of the expectations and more measurable. In response, we further refined the criteria and added some benchmarks and specifications to clarify how we define ending Veteran homelessness.
