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Homeless veterans struggle to find affordable housing
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More than two dozen military veterans in Tuolumne County are homeless and struggling to find a permanent placeto live,according to localhomeless advocates, who say a lack of available affordable housing is largely to blame. Hazel and Dick Mitchell, founders of "Give Someone a Chance,"a nonprofit organi-
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zation dedicated to helping the county's homeless, have located33 veterans over the pastseveralyearswho areliving in shelters, encampments or temporary situations with family and friends. So far, the organization has been able to get only four of them into permanent housing through charitable programs specifically targeted at reducing the number of veterans living on the streets. "We havealloftheir paper-
work, and a lot of them qualifyfor it,but there's no place to put them," Hazel Mitchell said.
Many of the homeless veterans range in age from 25 to 70-plus, including some with children as young as 4 who are also homeless.
Past homeless head counts conducted in the county found far fewer than 33 homeless veterans, Mitchell said, which See VETERANS / Back Page
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