Catholic Group Plans Veterans Housing

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Catholic Group Plans Veterans Housing
February 09, 2009
Mclatchy -Tribune News Service

A proposed apartment complex at the former St. Hedwig's campus on Zerby Avenue in Kingston, Pa., would provide transitional housing to veterans in need.

Catholic Social Services of Scranton is trying to secure grant funding to build 30 apartments for veterans returning from war, many of them homeless, said Monsignor Joseph Kelly, the Secretary for Catholic Human Services in the Diocese of Scranton.

Preliminary plans are to convert the existing school into apartments, and expand it to accommodate additional units. If the project is approved, veterans would be allowed to stay there for up to 24 months, Kelly said.

"The idea would be to help people get on their feet and then slowly get into more permanent housing of their own," he said.

About one-third of homeless American adults are military veterans, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Current estimates suggest as many as 154,000 veterans are homeless at some point during a year.


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