Facts and Statistics
The Need for Veterans Housing Assistance
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More than 25 million veterans reside in the U.S.*
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More than 6.9 million veterans are disabled
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More than 4.3 million veterans have a combined family income of less than $20,000
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The largest group of U.S. veterans are now in their 50’s and 60’s
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More than 31,000 service members have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan
What We've Accomplished
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67 the number of projects taken on since the inception of the Veterans Housing Initiative in 2005
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53 the number of affiliates who have completed a project under the Veterans Housing Initiative
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$1,263,804 total amount of funding provided to affiliates for Veterans Housing projects
- More than $2 million the total market value of completed projects
- 1,500 total number of volunteers mobilized for Veterans Housing
*Statistics from the 2001 National Survey of Veterans (NSV) conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
*ABC News Article 11/2006 **Iraq Study Group Report 2006 ***Financial Times/MSNBC 11/2006

