Homeless Rural Vets Find A Place To Call Home

editor — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:25:00 +0000

This month, more than a dozen homeless veterans will finally have a place to call their own, thanks to the American Legion.

The organization's post in a small Connecticut town has been working for a decade on a unique project to create not transitional but permanent supportive housing in their rural community.

For 55-year-old Army veteran Jeff MacDonald, the new facility in Jewett City, Conn., was like "winning the lottery."

"Never did I have a house or my own place or nothing," MacDonald says while walking through his new apartment.