The City of Wichita is partnering with United Way of the Plains, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Sedgwick County to effectively end veteran homelessness in Wichita by the end of next year. “Homelessness is a complex social issue,” says United Way of the Plains president Pete Najera. “And it will take a collective community response to bring it to functional zero.”
The City of Wichita’s Housing and Community Services department will play a crucial role in achieving the goal. Director Sally Stang said that the department plans to work with landlords on finding a way to provide the roughly 32 veterans a place to stay. “We’re gonna have to prove that we’ve got a system in play that as new veterans enter into homelessness, it’s brief and non recurring, and that we have systems in place to quickly move them into housing,” Stang said.
Source: KAKE – News
