By Arin Mikailian
After living on the streets and, more recently, in a friend’s garage, Army veteran and single father Joseph Garcia finally has a permanent roof over his head in a new low-income housing complex for returning soldiers in Glendale.
Veterans Village, a 44-unit, affordable-housing development for veterans and their families, formally opened Tuesday amid a larger debate across Los Angeles County about how to end homelessness.
Garcia, a Persian Gulf War veteran and part-time carpenter, moved in with his 10-year-old son, Gabriel, last fall. Since then, he’s been getting to know his neighbors who saw combat in other wars, he said.
“All of our guards are down. We’re like one big family,” Garcia said. “Whether people were in the Army, Air Force, Marines, we all get along together really well, and we’re always covering for each other. We’re helping each other 
with our kids and feeding each other.”
Garcia was one of the winners of a random lottery to pick the first residents of Veterans Village. More than 4,500 applications were received from all over Los Angeles County, said Jordan Pynes, president of developer Thomas Safran & Associates.
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