Homelessness

The Department of Veterans Affairs published a Notice of Funding Opportunity for approximately $5 million in grants per year (for up to two years) to help Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to today's press conference, our first of the new year. It's great to see each of you here today. We have a couple of new reporters also in attendance as well as online, so we have some new faces there.

VA permanently houses 46,000+ homeless Veterans in 2023.

VA to provide millions in grant funding to help homeless Veterans following an uptick in homelessness.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced permanently housed 38,847 homeless Veterans through October of 2023 — surpassing the calendar year goal to house 38,000 Veterans two months early.  

The Department of Veterans Affairs announces several critical steps forward on its Veteran suicide prevention initiatives, including $52.5 million in new Veteran suicide prevention grants, a new set of Veteran suicide prevention public service announcements (PSA), and — for the first time — statistics on the impact of VA’s new program offering free emergency medical care to Veterans in acute suicidal crisis at any VA or non-VA health care facility.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will deploy 25 mobile medical units across the country during the next six months to provide health care and support to homeless and at-risk Veterans.

For the first time, legal service grants are being awarded $11.5 million to assist Veterans who are homeless or those at-risk of being homeless.

Tod Lipka, thanks for that kind introduction and, more importantly, for your relentless work teaching any who doubt it that housing first works, that—as you’ve said—we solve homelessness by creating homes and helping people find belonging to a community.

Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced its 2023 goals for preventing and ending Veteran homelessness.

This is the largest budget proposal in U.S. history for Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. The total FY 2024 request for VA is $325.1 billion, a $16.6 billion (+5.4%) increase above the FY 2023 budget enacted level. This includes a discretionary budget request of $142.8 billion, a $3.0 billion (+2.1%) increase over FY 2023. The 2024 mandatory funding request is $182.3 billion, an increase of $13.6 billion (+8.1%) above 2023.

As a part of ongoing efforts to prevent and end Veteran homelessness, the Department of Veterans Affairs is announcing $30 million in grant funding for organizations to help formerly homeless Veterans maintain their independence and housing stability.