returning veterans

Help lags for homeless female veterans

About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.

By Bina Venkataraman
The Christian Science Monitor
July 18, 2007

'On the verge of homelessness': Rachel Caesar, who spent 14 years in the military.
Rachel Caesar, the first American-born in her family of immigrants from Trinidad, served in the National Guard and Army Reserve for 14 years. Today, three years after returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, she's out of an apartment, out of work, and, on some days, ready to "run away and hide."