Arizona First State To Eliminate Veteran Homelessness

"Today they are neighbors and participants in a program that White House officials have said has led Phoenix to become the first community in the country to end homelessness among veterans with long or recurrent histories of living on the streets...This month, Salt Lake City placed the last of its chronically homeless veterans in housing, its mayor, Ralph Becker, announced...These milestones are the first significant achievements by individual communities in the federal government's plan to end homelessness among veterans by 2015, part of its ambitious and complex push to eliminate homelessness over all by 2020." Fernanda Santos in The New York Times.