Finding Home: Military Veterans Use Va to Get Off the Streets

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On any given day in Utah there are 165 beds at six different government-sponsored locations to help more than 1,000 of the Beehive State's homeless military veterans, most of whom live along the Wasatch Front.

Those vets, if they qualify, can lay claim to one of the coveted beds for up to two years during what the Department of Veterans Affairs calls an "episode." The VA allows vets up to three episodes in a lifetime -- three opportunities to turn their lives around.

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Finding Home: Military Veterans Use Va to Get Off the Streets

The ways veterans find these beds are as varied as the problems in their lives that land them at homeless shelters or in alleys before learning about the temporary housing available through the VA.

Some can't shake th...

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