{"id":72725,"date":"2023-05-31T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/31\/advocates-struggle-to-help-homeless-vets-as-covid-support-disappears\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:26:38","slug":"advocates-struggle-to-help-homeless-vets-as-covid-support-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/veterans\/2023\/05\/31\/advocates-struggle-to-help-homeless-vets-as-covid-support-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates struggle to help homeless vets as COVID support disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Veterans advocates<\/a> are scrambling to fix funding and programming shortfalls caused by the expiration of pandemic assistance for homeless veterans<\/a> earlier this month, a problem they believe could be avoided with a quick vote by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But plans to extend that extra relief are still stalled in the House and Senate amid the ongoing debt limit fight and other federal budget talks. With no clear end in sight, the delay has the potential to undo some of the progress made in recent years in reducing homelessness among veterans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now we\u2019re only getting about 70% of what it actually costs to provide our services to veterans, so we\u2019ve already had to start cutting back,\u201d said Akilah Templeton, chief executive officer of Veterans Village of San Diego<\/a>, which provides a range of housing support programs and employment training efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the pandemic support, it was already a patchwork quilt of funding. And now we\u2019re returning to that, and it\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t