Habitat Will Build More Albany Houses

by Gianna Caserta - WALB.com

December 13, 2011

ALBANY, GA - One third of homeless adults in this country are Veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night.

Flint River Habitat for Humanity wants to help.

They asked the city of Albany for federal grant money to help build homes for veterans.

Those are unfortunate statistics, which is why Flint River Habitat for Humanity is doing their part to help veterans in Dougherty County, especially disable veterans, get off the streets and into homes.

"They should be taken care of," says David Wonderful Wright.

David Wright doesn't like seeing the thousands of veterans, homeless and living on the streets.

"I don't think a veteran should be homeless you know, they should have some type of program set up for veterans," says Wright.

And the problem hits close to home for Wright, because his father served in the military. "My dad is a 20 year veteran, he has served in the US army, he was an airborne ranger," says Wright.

His family has lived in this home for more than 40 years and he thinks it's great that Flint River Habitat for Humanity will build two new homes across the street.

"We specifically designated this for veterans, we wanted to do something for our veterans, so we contacted all of the veteran agencies and they are working with us," says Jimmy Cross, Flint River Habitat for Humanity Construction Manager....

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