Every other year around this time, including this year, volunteers fan out across their communities on a single night, attempting to count the homeless. As part of that count, they also attempt to eyeball who’s a homeless veteran. Later, this count is put together with a tabulation of how many people pass through services geared to the homeless in a year, like shelters, to get a federal estimate of both how many homeless there are across America, and also how many veterans are homeless.
See any problems with this picture, like who it might leave out? That would be women veterans, the fastest growing demographic of homeless veterans, who are highly unlikely to appear lurking under a bridge or staying in shelters, because of their trauma histories and because they’re often single parents with dependent children in tow.
[For more of this story, written by Lily Casura, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...14dce4b077a19d181007]
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