Compass Center

About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 154,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.

The Renton Regional Veterans Complex will meet an immediate need to house homeless veterans and their families and to provide support services to those individuals and families who served their country in the Armed Services. With tens of thousands of veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of vets in need of safe, supportive housing will only continue to rise.

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