BYĀ MICHELLE R. SMITH
For more than two years, Don Perrault lived without a home as the Vietnam veteran struggled with depression and personal setbacks that at one point left him with nothing to do but take a therapeutic 7-day walk to New Jersey ā then walk back.
Now, after living out of a shelter where he shared a room with six other men, he has a home of his own under an ambitious push to wipe out homelessness among veterans in Rhode Island.
“It helps a little bit with your mind, your mental aspect,” Perrault, 60, said. “It’s hard for a person who is homeless to have dignity.”
The efforts that have secured Perrault a newly renovated one-bedroom apartment ā complete with new furniture 
and even a TV ā for a rental voucher and $25 per month for rent and utilities are part of a national push to end homelessness among veterans by the end of the year. The goal has been spurred by both President Barack Obama’s administration and Zero: 2016, a campaign run by the nonprofit group Community Solutions
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