Goal to end homelessness for Connecticut veterans in sight

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By Mary O’Leary

Many problems in society are intractable. This apparently isn’t one of them.

After years of hard work providing services, the professionals who deal with the issue on a daily basis say Connecticut will essentially end homelessness for veterans by December 2015.

“It is one of the greatest professional successes of my career,” said Suzanne Piacentini, field office director in Hartford for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Piacentini was talking about a group effort across governmental levels with nonprofits, as well as public and private partnerships, all working toward the same goal without regard to agency boundaries or efforts to grab the credit.

Two years ago, both the state and the federal government set goals to end homelessness for hire vetsveterans by 2015. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has also signed onto the more difficult goal of ending chronic homelessness for the general population by 2016.

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