Female Veterans Pose Homeless Challenge for VA

NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--For Penelope McClenan, a 52-year-old disabled veteran, the future is clouded by the most basic of uncertainties: does she have a home to call her own?
Over a year ago, on Jan. 29, 2014, a city marshal escorted her out of her apartment. It was her birthday.

McClenan is unable to work for medical reasons she ties to the time of her military service, and the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program had been helping to pay her rent for three years.

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