Mich. Building Vets Apartment Complex

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Mich. Building Vets Apartment Complex
June 02, 2008
Detroit Free Press

When Army Spc. Robert Frazier returned to metro Detroit after the Persian Gulf War in 1992, he was physically and emotionally injured.

A helicopter crash crushed two discs in the gunner's back and ruined one of his knees. Combat shattered his spirit. In the 19 years since Frazier enlisted, the former Sterling Heights resident has lost his marriage, his ability to hold down a job and his home.

But this time next year, Frazier, who currently lives in a shelter, could be living in a Detroit apartment designed specifically for homeless veterans.

Southwest Solutions is to break ground at 10 a.m. June 2 on a 150-unit apartment complex and commercial building called Piquette Square.

Veterans who will live in the one-bedroom apartments just north of I-94 and east of Woodward will have access to counseling and job-skills training when the complex opens in spring 2009. It will be the second permanent veterans housing complex in the United States and the largest of its kind, said Bob O'Brien, spokesman for the nonprofit.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/mich-building-vets-apartment-complex.html

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1. it's about time they brought back the "Old Soldier's Home"

No one should be homeless, least of all someone who risked their lives for this country.