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USA Today: Homeless vet population falling, but for how long?
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WASHINGTON – J.B. Baker, Jr., a former Navy gunner who used to live on the streets, is renting an apartment in South Carolina and getting mental-health treatment — all with the federal government's help.
The 1991 Gulf War veteran gets a rental voucher from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has received treatment for post traumatic stress disorder at a Veterans Affairs Department facility in Salisbury, N.C., and he lived for awhile at a shelter run by the Alston Wilkes Society, a Columbia-based social service agency that receives VA funding.
"They provided me with the counseling that I needed, transportation to and from my appointments, a place to stay, food, caseworkers," said Baker, 41, who moved into his apartment in Columbia in January. "I followed every step that they told me, and I'm happy."
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