Tag: u.s. department of veterans affairs
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Colorado housing agencies receive nearly $600,000 to help curb veteran homelessness
Curbing veteran homelessness in Colorado made headway this week as multiple state housing agencies received almost $600,000 in the form of permanent housing vouchers. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, under its “HUD-VASH” housing voucher program, awarded 66 housing agencies across the nation a total…
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Crow proposes bill to help Syrian Kurdish allies
UPDATE: Crow tweeted a video Thursday morning featuring the legislation’s co-sponsor, combat veteran U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., explaining the legislation. U.S. Rep. Jason Crow on Wednesday announced the Syrian Partner Protection Act, an effort to extend special immigrant visas to Syrian Kurds who helped American forces combat ISIS. “The American handshake needs to mean something.…
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Gardner introduces legislation to designate 9-8-8 national suicide hotline number
For anyone contemplating suicide, the number to call is 1-800-273-8255. But that 10-digit number could go down to three and be as easy to memorize as 9-1-1 under proposed federal legislation. Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner introduced on Tuesday the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which would designate 9-8-8 as the number to call for…