HUD: Veteran homelessness in R.I. ticks up amid national decline

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VETERAN HOMELESSNESS increased in Rhode Island from 2017 to 2018 but declined nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
VETERAN HOMELESSNESS increased in Rhode Island from 2017 to 2018 but declined nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
PROVIDENCE – The number of homeless veterans declined 5.4 percent year over year in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Thursday, decreasing from 40,020 to 37,878 veterans nationwide. In Rhode Island, out of step with the national decline, the number of homeless veterans in 2018 increased to 103 veterans from…

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