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Facts About Homelessness

      
There are as many as 900 homeless veterans in Marion County on any given night and more than 3,600 in Indiana.  (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)

Nationwide, there are more than 200,000 homeless veterans on any given night, and more than half a million experience homelessness over the course of a year.  Overall, 2.3 to 3.5 million people are homeless annually.  (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs).

One out of every three homeless males who is sleeping in a doorway, alley or box has put on a uniform and served this country.  While homeless veterans make up 25 percent of the overall homeless population, they make up more than 35 percent of the chronically homeless. (Source: National Coalition for Homeless Veterans)

Many other veterans are considered at risk for homelessness because of poverty, lack of support from family or friends, and precarious living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing. (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)
 
The majority of homeless veterans are male; only four percent are female.  Most are single.  (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)

Homeless veterans served our country in World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Lebanon, the Gulf War, the military’s anti-drug cultivation efforts in South America and the war in Iraq. Forty-seven percent served during the Vietnam era. (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)

More than 67 percent of homeless veterans served for at least three years. (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)

Eighty-nine percent of homeless veterans received an honorable discharge. (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)

Forty-five percent of homeless veterans have mental illness, and with considerable overlap, slightly more than 70 percent have alcohol/substance abuse problems. Many also suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Source: Department of Veterans Affairs)