In a US first, New Orleans Finds Homes for All its Homeless Veterans

“More than 300 mayors have vowed to end military veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. New Orleans celebrated the new year by becoming the first city to do so,” reports the CS Monitor.

New Orleans becomes the first US city to effectively eradicate homeless veterans last Jan 02 at 6pm as it moved the last city's homeless veteran into his new apartment.

Now that all known homeless veterans have homes, the city has implemented a rapid response plan to make sure that newly homeless veterans can be placed into housing as quickly as possible. The city has committed to housing every newly identified veteran within 30 days.

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